Gas mask

A gas mask is a kind of mask that fits over the face area and nose. It protects from poison gases and many other hazards in the air. They are often used in war.

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The label NIOSH uses for gas masks, that show NIOSH has checked the gas mask.

Gas masks in the United States are checked by NIOSH.

Gas Mask Media

• A World War I British gas hood c.1915.jpg

  A World War I British P Helmet, c. 1915

• Man wearing a Zelinsky-Kummant gas mask.jpg

  Zelinsky–Kummant protivogaz, designed in 1915, was one of the first modern-type full-head protection gas masks with a detachable filter and eyelet glasses, shown here worn by U.S. Army soldier (USAWC photo)

• Indian muleteers and mule wearing gas masks, France, February 21, 1940

• Gas mask MUA IMGP0157.jpg

  A Polish SzM-41M KF gas mask, used from the 1950s through to the 1980s

• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R52907, Mannschaft mit Gasmasken am Fla-MG.jpg

  German soldiers with gas masks, 1916

• BunkArt-Horse-Gas-Mask.jpg

  Display of gas mask for horses, used in the First World War. Photographed at the Bunk'Art Museum outside, Tirana, Albania.

• Soldaty 267 Duhovshinskogo polka.jpg

  Солдаты Духовщинского полка в противогазах Зелинского-Кумманта, 1916.

• A British couple wearing gas masks in their home in 1941

• Iranian soldier wearing a US M17 protective mask on the frontline of the Iran–Iraq War

• Pioneers in gas masks. USSR, 1937

Related pages

• NIOSH ratings

References

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