[Ads-l] "Ballistic glass"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

OED has an entry for _ballistic_ 'of armour, a material, etc.: designed to offer protection against bullets or other projectiles; bulletproof', with quotations back to 1896. There's a 1997 quotation for "ballistic glass" in the entry, though as Dave points out, that specific term itself goes back rather earlier.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 02:17:58PM -0400, dave at wilton.net wrote:
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> "Ballistic glass" has been around for a while. I've found a Colt Industries annual report from 1970 that refers to "ballistic glass fiber." That's with less than five minutes of searching.
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> I'm sure if one digs around in industry publications and papers other early examples will turn up.
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> "ballistic glass" makes me think of flying drinkware. It's the bullet
> that's ballistic, not the bulletproof glass.
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> Kind of like describing a sushi chef's knife as "pelagic" just because it's
> used on seafood.
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> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 7:32 AM James Landau <
> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> > From Newsbreak"[Trump's] campaign is also asking for enhanced flight
> > restrictions over Trump's residences and campaign events and for ballistic
> > glass to be positioned across 2024's seven battlegrounds : Arizona,
> > Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
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> > "Ballistic glass" is another term for bulletproof glass.
> > The quote above, as writtten, says that the campaign is calling for
> > bulletproof glass to be "positioned" across the entire state of Arizone etc.
> > James Landau
> > jjjrlandau at netscape.com
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