John Haldane was a scientist who tested deadly chemicals on himself in his home in 1915, in the race to develop the gas mask.

During World War I, more than 90,000 soldiers died on all sides from gas attacks, which debilitated many more. And it wasn’t just human combatants who suffered — many military working animals ...

During World War II, the American military began investigating methods to protect the civilian population from domestic saboteurs. One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey ...

Slide 1 of 4, Soldiers wearing gas masks during World War One, Poisonous gas was used as a weapon The First World War was the first-time poison gas was used on a large scale during war.

Each of the French soldiers in the Argonne now has a felt mask that fits over the nose and mouth, and in the crevices of this mask is a whitish powder which neutralizes the German gas, thought to ...

A hundred years ago the German army became the first to use chemical weapons in World War One. Remnants can still be found today, as a Belgian hobby archaeologist recently found firsthand.

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 ...

One German officer won a crate of champagne by betting that he could stand in a cloud of it for five minutes. Gas attacks in World War I started with artillery shells filled with early types of ...

Gas masks were delivered to everyone’s house and had to be carried in a cardboard shoulder bag everywhere we went in case of a German gas attack during an air raid. All our windows had to be ...

After World War I showed the horrific effects of chemical weapons, world leaders mobilized to contain these new weapons of mass destruction.

During World War I, more than 90,000 soldiers died on all sides from gas attacks, which debilitated many more. And it wasn’t just human combatants who suffered — many military working animals ...