| Unlike any other inventions, gas mask is one with | | | | the Résevoir-Régulateur. This |
| no particular name to give direct credit. In this | | | | design was able to help rescuers save trapped |
| article, we would look into the early developments | | | | miners. It was composed of a mouthpiece, a nose |
| of gas masks that shaped the modern day | | | | clip, and an air tank that is carried at the back. |
| respirator which have given us several benefits. | | | | Gas mask was again improved 11 years later in |
| Almost a century ago in 1915, when the modern | | | | another part of the world. This time, a British |
| chemical weapon was invented, gas masks were | | | | physicist named John Tyndall created the |
| used. This enables the person to breath freely | | | | respirator that allowed firemen to breath properly |
| even if poisonous gas, thick smoke, or fumes | | | | against smoke and gas. In 1874, a patented |
| exist on air. At the height of the chemical | | | | device was patented By Samuel Barton, another |
| warfare, gas masks keep soldiers alive while | | | | British inventor. The particular respirator was |
| performing its normal functions at war. But this | | | | permitted and was accepted safe when used in |
| was not the first trace of the use of gas masks. | | | | conditions where gas, vapors, smoke, and other |
| Even before the First World War, gas masks are | | | | harmful air substance may be present. |
| used by firemen, divers, and firemen for a | | | | In America, gas masks also continued to develop |
| particular task. | | | | by the turn of the 20th century particularly in |
| Going almost another century back in 1832, an | | | | 1914. Garrett Morgan was the man responsible to |
| apparatus capable of protecting people from | | | | the patented Morgan safety hood and smoke |
| smoke was patented. Brothers John and Charles | | | | protector. He was probably the most popular gas |
| Deane were the names responsible. Years later, | | | | mask inventor during that time as his gas masks |
| the original patent was develop for the use of | | | | were able to save 32 lives that were trapped |
| underwater divers. Meanwhile on 1819, Augustus | | | | after an underground tunnel explosion happened |
| Siebe used the concept in another approach. He | | | | 250 feet below the surface of Lake Erie. This |
| used it by including a helmet and a tube where | | | | event made Garrett Morgan's work sold |
| the air was pumped. This had become the basis | | | | throughout the country. |
| of the future defense respirators. | | | | Some claimed that the Morgan safety hood and |
| In 1849, an inventor named Lewis Haslett created | | | | smoke protector became the basis of the future |
| and patented the "inhaler or lung protector". This | | | | gas masks used in the military during the First |
| was the first air-purifying respirator that is capable | | | | World War although some disagreed. |
| of filtering dust particles from the air before it | | | | Cluny Mcpherson was another gas mask inventor |
| goes in to the nose. And if you think this is the | | | | who made big time in this device. His invention |
| best gas mask ever, consider the gas mask that | | | | was used at the same time developed by the |
| was developed 5 years after. A Scotish chemist | | | | Allied Forces during WW1 as a protection for |
| named John Stenhouse was able to create gas | | | | chemical weapon. |
| masks that filter toxic gases with the use of | | | | In the course of years, gas masks continued to |
| charcoal alone. | | | | develop. And thanks to these people, gas masks |
| Moving ahead in 1860, Auguste Denayrouse and | | | | today became more efficient and a lot safer. |
| Benoit Rouquayrol, both French inventor created | | | | |
