Helmets and body armor in modern warfare by Bashford Dean

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education. Publication

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publication of the Committee on Education.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armor.

Helmets.

World War, 1914-1918--Equipment and supplies.

World War, 1914-1918.

Protective Devices.

Military Science.

Equipment and supplies.

Medical Subjects:

Protective Devices.

Military Science.

Genre:

Illustrated books

Illustrated works

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages) illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven Yale University Press London Humphrey Milford MDCCCCXX [1920]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"The present book aims to consider the virtues and failings of helmets and body armor in modern warfare. To this end it brings together materials collected from all accessible sources; it shows the kinds of armor which each nation has been using in the Great War, what practical tests they will resist, of what materials they are made, and what they have done in saving life and limb. As an introduction to these headings there has now been added a section which deals with ancient armor; this enables us to contrast the old with the new and to indicate, in clearer perspective, what degree of success the latest armor may achieve in its special field"--Preface

Contents:

Introduction : including an outline of the earlier use of armor

I. The early use of armor in the present war

II. Armor as a protection against missiles of low and middle velocity

III. Foreign types of modern helmets and body armor : their origin and fate

IV. Shields and their use during the present war

V. American helmets and body armor

VI. Steel used in making modern armor : can other metal than steel be used for this purpose, e.g., aluminum alloys?

VII. Soft armor (id est, armor of textiles), its beginning, development and possible value

VIII. Concerning tests of modern armor

IX. What should be done to improve helmets and body armor at the present time? Summary and conclusions

Notes:

At head of title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928. Helmets and body armor in modern warfare

OCLC:

894267824