The French Helmet's Practical Success

Title (Dublin Core): The French Helmet's Practical Success
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Personal protection (helmets)
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): The French Helmet's Practical Success
extracted text (Extract Text): ‘The new field equipment of the French infantryman. The French have gone far in their
efforts to substitute for their comic-opera uniforms of blue and red a practical fighting costume,
and they may now be considered as well clothed as any soldiers in the field. The steel
helmet is the latest addition, and met with instant favor among the fighting men. The
helmet is admirably designed, and tends to prevent the multitude of head injuries which
have swelled the mortality rate. The illustrations of damaged helmets show the remarkable
strength of this head-gear, for in all cases shown, the soldier was only slightly wounded by
‘missiles which would otherwise have killed him
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1916-02
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 88, n. 2, 1916
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 208
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)