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As mentioned above in a previous comment, you have made a serious omission in your article, "Building the Real Iron Man." You forgot to mention that master science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein envisioned powered armor suits back in 1959 in his superb novel Starship Troopers (not to be confused with the 1997 film that turned out to be a travesty by the same name allegedly based upon the book). “A suit isn’t a space suit—although it can serve as one. It is not primarily armor—although the Knights of the Round Table were not armored as well as we are. It isn’t a tank—but a single M.I. private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them off unassisted if anyone was silly enough to put tanks against M.I. A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a little—on the other hand neither spaceships nor atmosphere craft can fight against a man in a suit except by saturation bombing of the area he is in (like burning down a house to get one flea!). Contrariwise, we can do many things that no ship—air, submersible, or space—can do.” And it may even be possible that Heinlein was not the first one to come up with the idea. So, let us give credit where credit is due.