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ILN During WWI: Animals and War
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Gas-Masks for War-Dogs
Unknown, 1917, Press cutting, Reproduction
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Gas-Masks for War-Dogs
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Title
Gas-Masks for War-Dogs: A Chien-De-Liaison in a Poison-Cloud
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From the Illustrated London News published January 20th, 1917, page 65. French official photograph. Full title: "Protected (like his masters) against German poison-gas: A French liaison dog going safely through deadly fumes at the Front."
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Unknown
Date
1917
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39.6 x 26.7 cm
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Press cutting
;
Reproduction
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Reference Library
Poison-gas and chemical weapons debuted during World War One, shocking the world with their terrible and deadly consequences. After his part in the development of the revolutionary Haber-Bosch process, for which he gained scientific prestige, German chemist Fritz Haber was called upon to help his country's war efforts. Haber was asked only to allow Germany to militarise his process of developing nigrates for use in explosives, and as a patriot, Haber agreed.
However, Haber took his scientific knowledge further; he was inarguably the first person to suggest the use of air-dispersed chlorine gas on the battlefields of the First World War, ushering in a new era of warfare. Gas attacks using compounds like tear gas had been in use by the French Army prior to Haber's suggestion, but Haber's chemical attacks were not merely irritant gases, they were fatal clouds that devastated unsuspecting enemy troops. Haber's development of chemical weaponry made poison-gas clouds and gas-masks iconic features of the First World War.
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ILN During WWI: Animals and War
ILN During WWI: Modernising Warfare
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