Trench technology against gas attack which is still in use today
‘An ecstasy of fumbling’ is how the officer poet Wilfred Owen described the struggle to put on a gas mask. The history of a 1916 invention which continues to save lives
The World Today
Published 9 December 2013
Updated 5 October 2020
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Dr
Gabriel
Moshenska
Lecturer in Public Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology
