The flamethrower appear on the Western Front in 1915, two months before gas. Others weapons, like the machine gun, were honed to new levels of murderous perfection. The biggest killer of all was ...

The flamethrower was first used by German troops near Verdun in February 1915. 3. Poison Gas. A platoon wearing gas masks during World War I. | Fototeca Storica Nazionale./GettyImages.

In 1914 a chemist called Fritz Haber offered his knowledge to the German Army. ... First World War tech Chlorine Gas & Gas Masks. Posted: January 23, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025.

That might have been different had they been able to peer a bit farther across no-man’s land — at how German troops had dug in, under cover of night, more than 5,000 gas cylinders with tubes ...