One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, ...

More than a century after his death, the previously unmarked grave of Corporal of Horse (CoH) Charles Edward Dean has finally ...

As World War One broke out, excitement and enthusiasm ... A British Vickers machine gun crew wearing gas masks near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. The gun could fire around 500 ...

Based in Melksham, Wiltshire, Avon Technologies provides respiratory and ballistic protection to militaries and law ...

Though they are usually responsible, these sergeants major created their own hell in Arizona when they donned gas masks and ...

Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...

“Gas masks? Technicians tell us no.” This was the response to reporters from the prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, on the sidelines of the meeting at the Prefecture of the Rescue ...

In all, more than 500,000 tons of chemical gas agents were used in World War I. Some 500,000 troops were injured and some 30,000 died, including 2,000 American troops.

The exhibition also features Banksy’s graffiti piece “Woman in a Gas Mask,” which the anonymous British street artist painted in Hostomel, Kyiv Region, after the town was liberated from Russian forces ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead at 6:50 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas for 19 minutes through a fitted full-faced respirator mask while strapped to a gurney inside the execution ...

When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...