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* ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' (1971): when Dr. Stone and Dr Hall investigate the town of Piedmont, they wear sealed suits to protect them against the title disease. |
* ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' (1971): when Dr. Stone and Dr Hall investigate the town of Piedmont, they wear sealed suits to protect them against the title disease. |
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* In ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'', the title character and his henchmen wear radiation suits while operating the nuclear reactor. [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] wears one too while [[Dressing As the Enemy]]. |
* In ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'', the title character and his henchmen wear radiation suits while operating the nuclear reactor. [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] wears one too while [[Dressing As the Enemy]]. |
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* ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'': in a [[Shout |
* ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'': in a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'', Dr. Evil wears a radiation suit while loading the nuclear bomb into the subterranean drill. |
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* ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]'': Marty dons a radiation suit to handle the plutonium fuel for the DeLorean, and wears it during his trip into the past. |
* ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]'': Marty dons a radiation suit to handle the plutonium fuel for the DeLorean, and wears it during his trip into the past. |
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* All the scientists in ''[[ |
* All the scientists in ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' wear these to study the titular alien. |
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* Worn in ''Outbreak''. |
* Worn in ''Outbreak''. |
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* Both scientists and soldiers wear these in the 1973 version of ''[[The Crazies (Film)|The Crazies]].'' |
* Both scientists and soldiers wear these in the 1973 version of ''[[The Crazies (Film)|The Crazies]].'' |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* Probably the earliest example of a [[Hazmat Suit]] was the [ |
* Probably the earliest example of a [[Hazmat Suit]] was the [[wikipedia:Plague doctor|Plague Doctor]] outfit worn in Medieval Europe during Black Death epidemics. It consisted of thick leather gloves and boots, heavy oilcloth cloak and pants covering the whole body, and the iconic "bird-man" mask which gave rise to one of the most popular Venetian masks around, the eponymous ''[[Gratuitous Italian|medico della peste]]''. The mask included the goggles covering the eyes and aromatic herbs in the beak, that supposedly ward off the plague "miasma" and certainly masked the stench of decaying bodies and leaking buboes of the patients. Apparently, these worked quite well. |
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** Virtually none of the user's skin was exposed while wearing it, so the risk of being bitten by plague-carrying fleas was much lower. |
** Virtually none of the user's skin was exposed while wearing it, so the risk of being bitten by plague-carrying fleas was much lower. |
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* Ironically, asbestos firesuits turned out to be hazardous in themselves as the very material protecting firefighters threatened to kill them in the longer term with incurable and deadly abesteosis. |
* Ironically, asbestos firesuits turned out to be hazardous in themselves as the very material protecting firefighters threatened to kill them in the longer term with incurable and deadly abesteosis. |
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