A shield of steel protects French soldiers while they cut enemy's wire entanglements
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A shield of steel protects French soldiers while they cut enemy's wire entanglements
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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It Nipped Its Way through Wire Entanglements
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THE combined length of the wire
entanglements used in the war
amounted to many thousands of miles.
These wire protections proved to be
highly effective as a weapon of de-
fense, a sufficient reason to stimulate
the ingenuity of inventors to devise
some equally effective method of
combating and overcoming this pro-
tection, without resorting to pro.onged
artillery fire.
Some of the earlier contrivances were
so elaborate that they were unwieldy
and an easy target for machine-guns
and heavier artillery.
One of the simpler and more satis-
factory devices, developed by the
French, is a shield of steel, bent so as
to protect the head of the wire-snipping soldier in front
and on top. It is attached to the axle of two hollow
wheels filled with sand to give them greater weight. The
soldier using the device crawled toward the enemy's en-
tanglement in the old Indian way, pushing the shield for-
ward as he progressed. When he reached the entangle-
ment, he thrust his wire nippers through an opening in
the front of the shield and cut the wires.
The device is small, inconspicuous, and very effective.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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International Film Service (Image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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30
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
