Among those who found a path first was Dr. Cluny Macpherson, a Newfoundland doctor who devised an early gas mask — known as ...

Demand for gas masks is skyrocketing because of fears over ... going to be mostly preppers who are purchasing these types of products," Zrazhevskiy told Business Insider Today.

As war raged across Europe between 1939 and 1945 people were given gas masks to protect them from possible airborne gas attacks by the Germans. This gas mask has been passed down through the ...

Schmidt, Ulf 2024. Grounding the history of modern warfare: An extended book review of Peter Thompson's The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany. Natural Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue. 1, ...

More than 40 million gas masks were issued. In America there was a gas mask for children that looked like Mickey Mouse, with the character's nose and ears and even a picture of him on the gas filter.

A former army commander says gas masks made in Britain could help Ukrainians defend their country. Avon Protection, in Melksham, Wiltshire, makes "world-leading" masks, which are being requested ...