As explained in a passage from A History of the World War, here's how the gas masks worked: The perfected gas masks used by both sides contained a chamber filled with a specially prepared charcoal.

Editor’s Note, May 11, 2022: This article previously suggested that John Haldane was the first person to invent a gas mask. In fact, Garrett Morgan, a Black inventor based in Ohio ...

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 ...

During World War I, four of baseball’s most accomplished, most celebrated Hall of Famers volunteered in The Great War, ...

In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square, cardboard box - or it was until Woolworths came up with a variety of alternative metal canisters.

The Allies used even more: 82,000 tons. The lethal power of more sophisticated gases increased the horror by the month, even as the improvement of gas mask designs required more and more poison to ...

The standard-issue gas mask in 1917 - the "small box respirator ... IWM A horror of the use of poisonous substances in war goes back far beyond WW1. The first bilateral treaty banning the ...

Colling says he always takes a gas mask with him because the mustard gas can be lethal — even 91 years later. He is constantly reminding the local population of the danger. Sponsor Message ...