Month: March 2019

The gas mask, a device to help and protect the user from inhaling gas, smoke or other poisonous fumes, have been used for decades by different people and for different reasons.The first use of poison gas in war started in Ypres, France on April 22, 1915 when the German military used chlorine gas to attack French forces, but gas masks have been in existence long before that fateful date.Miners, firemen and submerged divers all needed for helmets to protect the face from harmful components, provided breathable atmosphere and filtered out potentially deadly substances like smoke and debris...