Evening star., 1951-01-14

sonay making that CT garb will keep soldiers comfort
able whatever part of the globe they be- Whatever the
human CTS do, Chauncey has done it first Dr. Alan H
Woodcock civilian head of the aboraoys Bophysics and
Instrumentation Unit explains:
Chauncey turns in more report than the Others
He has been the night before important assign
ment What's he's utterly reliable eventempered and
has absolutely And finally he doesn't have to
leave the testing room for choW!
Although Chauncey can't feel heat cold he tell the
ON techncians with exact precision just how warm or cold
any part of his body whatever he is wearing He is able
do this because his head hands, feet and legs
wired separate circuits and heated to the approximate
temperature of the human skim When he enters testing
room he plugged into big board where flashing lights
register exactly how he feels all over
What Does Chauncey Prove?
EsE complex instruments the of heat loss
of each part of his body separately thus telling the ON
exactly how we'll every part of his uniform retain heat
What has Chauncey proved to the Army2 BY recording
how fast his body loses heat under any given conditions of
temperature humidity and wind he has been able to show
the ON exactly what kind and how much clothing soldier
needs every possible kind of weather He has already been
responsible for infinite number Of changes ranging from
underwear and mittens to shoes and parkas.
One problem Chauncey hasn't yet been able to lick
the of footwear for troops fighting in cold regions
Quartermaster officials say that the latest shoe
pac can't do the impossible keep outside water out
and the time let inside moisture escape This,
they explains the in North Korea
One of the copper mans most important experiments in
wolves entirely concept OF clothing known vertical
ventilation In ordinary clothing heat is eliminated
through the entire garment In vertical ventilation the heat
escape anywhere except at the neck which adjust
able for that purpose The garment oosened at the waist
that the air rises around the body in chimney Garb
such this is far from dressy but since fighting comfort
desirable than looks the battlefield the Army
studying it intensively.
Chauncey is by base-bound soldier however.
Two winters ago he stood for three months in the bone
chilling cold of Churchill Hudson Bay Canada The winter
before that he kept lonely vigil atop Mt Washington in New
Hampshire 6288 feet above level where the mercury
plumeed to 40 below 1t Churchill that Chauncey
shocked couple of tipsy fur traders who approached him
took close look and mushed off like mad to inform authorities
about the frozen soldier on the barren wastes
The Third Generation
Actually the present Chauncey third generation
descendant of the original The first Chauncey Harvard
created 1912 at the unversys Fatigue Laboratory,
unit then testing CT uniforms under Army contract DR..
spotted undraped dummy in department-stoe window
day and got the idea for using human figure in the
experiments
Chauncey fashioned by Boston tinsth out of stove
pipes The tnsth apoogized for his badly battered face
II put round pipe his neck for head he explained "but
he looked like MtssOlni