One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary. I wondered ...

Russia has now used a mysterious WW1-style gas on the frontlines to choke Ukrainian soldiers fighting there ... He said: "Here you can see the gas mask that the machine gunner was holding.

Petty’s medical facility was caught in the line of fire. Petty himself was knocked down by shrapnel and his gas mask destroyed. Ignoring his wounds and tearing off the useless mask, he continued ...

A decade earlier, he patented the first gas mask in response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 garment workers, mostly young women, in New York City in 1911. He proved the ...

soldiers stuck in trenches without gas masks must either flee under enemy fire or risk suffocating on the gas. Colonel Serhii Pakhomov, acting head of the military's atomic, biological and ...

One of the best-known gas masks developed during WWI was the small box respirator. It consisted of a face mask made from rubberized fabric, which connected to a canister containing chemicals that ...