The German gas mask originally got to Wyoming by way of U.S. Army Sgt. Robert O. Pennewill, who served in the war. The gas mask was part of a large collection of World War I items displayed in the ...

gas masks, some still in their containers, are piled at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood in Zillebeke, Belgium. Chlorine gas - sent crawling in favorable winds over Flanders Fields from German positions ...

It took six assaults in the face of devastating German artillery ... Petty himself was knocked down by shrapnel and his gas mask destroyed. Ignoring his wounds and tearing off the useless mask ...

filed a patent for a gas mask in 1914, a year before Haldane started researching his device. The story has been updated to reflect Morgan’s contributions. Unprepared for German forces to use ...

As explained in a passage from A History of the World War, here's how the gas masks worked ... Fritz Haber, a German Jew who had earlier won a Nobel prize for synthesizing ammonia.

When searching through the boxes they even found a WW1 era German gas mask from 1915. "It's invaluable information to historians, genealogists, and war buffs. It's just a wealth of information ...

That the chief effect of the gas was destroyed by great cold was not known at that time." But the failure at Bolimow proved to be only a temporary setback. By April, German chemists had tested a ...

One particular episode of the chemical war within WWI deserves a wider description: almost dead after the severe poison gas attack, Russian soldiers still attacked the German ranks. Read our ...

STEENSTRATE, Belgium - As a spring breeze wafted into his trench, commander Georges Lamour of the French 73rd infantry saw something almost surreal drift his way. A yellow-green cloud. He barely ...

Mustard gas, which a watchdog on Friday said the so-called Islamic State group may have manufactured and used in Syria and Iraq, first terrorised battlefields during World War I. The Organisation for ...

Chlorine gas — sent crawling in favorable winds over Flanders Fields from German positions — sowed ... even as the improvement of gas mask designs required more and more poison to be deployed.