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"To go out on January day and run around on the beach under a golden sun makes a very great change in your outlook on the universe."
- Robert Silverberg
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| Electrically Heated Clothes | ||
| Using artificial heating to counteract the cold of space. |
| It was hard to see his speedometer, built into the transparent headpiece of his flying space armor — hard because he had on a second headpiece underneath, attached to his electrically heated clothes; and the light from the sun split dazzlingly through the two barriers. |
| Technovelgy from Repetition,
by A.E. van Vogt. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1940 Additional resources -
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This idea took off in the first years of WWII:
(Via Wikipedia)
Since this story was published in 1940, it's a pretty good guess that van Vogt had seen it already.
By the time World War II started in earnest, electrically heated suits were introduced by Lion Apparel in conjunction with General Electric for patrol and bomber crews who routinely operated at high altitudes above 30,000 feet (9,100 m), where air temperatures could get so cold that flesh could freeze instantly to any metal it touched. As enclosed and pressurized cabins came into operation, the necessity of bulky leather and shearling jackets and pants began to fade.
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