Gas masks development

Uses. Potassium peroxide is used as an oxidizing agent and in oxygen generating units for gas masks (Ref 5). Another use has been found by Hatterer who developed a device which extracts the thermal energy from nuclear reactors in a reaction which generates H2 and 02 gases by... 

One cannot forget the leading role of Zelinsky in development of the gas mask, which saved many thousands of lives of Russian and Allied soldiers during the first World War. 

FIGURE 61.1. School-age girl with US civilian noncomhatant gas mask MI-I-I, child size. Photograph courtesy of the US Army Research Development and Engineering Command, Historical Research and Response Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

Members of NDRC Division 10 carried out the perfection of absorbents in gas masks, both activated carbon and filters, which supplied protection for United States troops far superior to that of the enemy forces and also oil smokes for screening large areas. Division 8 developed a new method for producing RDX and made other major improvements... 

From the first big gas attack in April, 1915, to the end of the war, the resourcon of both sides, and particularly of the Allies, were strained almost to the limit to keep gas protection abreast of the rapid development in (he offensive use of gas. It was truly a modern version (vastly acce er ited) of the age-old race between armor and armor-piercing projectiles. During the three and a half years of the gas war the British Government alone issued 50,000,000 gas masks of seven different kinds to protect an... 

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