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From: Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: 1972 Legnano in the news
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:06:36 -0500
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Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:44:01 -0500, Radey Shouman
> <shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I just did a web search for "walking helmet", and got pages of stuff on
>> helmets for babies and toddlers learning to walk.  I guess that's a
>> thing these days; I must be out of touch.  
>
> In the eighteenth century they were called "pudding caps".

Thanks for that, it seems they may date back even further than that.

I had never heard of them or their modern equivalents, nor of babies
head injured by falls when learing to walk.  I suppose it can happen
when falling into a coffee table or learning to climb tall objects.


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