As the story goes, Gen. August-Louis Adrian encountered that wounded French soldier and was suddenly inspired to create a helmet. Brilliant read, but it is dubious at best. At the opening stages ...

One helmet, the French Adrian design, even performed better than a modern design in terms of protection from overhead blasts, according to the Duke biomedical engineers’ research. A paper on the ...

A modern helmet (left) and a French helmet (right) exposed to blasts meant to simulate an exploding artillery shell. Image: (J. O. Eynde et al., 2020/PLOS One ) New research suggests helmets used ...

One model in particular, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better than modern designs. The research could help improve the blast protection of future helmets through choosing different ...

In fact, a recent study done by a team of Duke University researchers finds that the 105-year-old "Adrian" helmet used by the French army in World War One can provide better blast protection than the ...

Various shock waves replicating historical artillery shells were then generated. The French Adrian helmet, developed in 1915, had the lowest risk for moderate brain bleeding — even less than ...

Joost Op 't Eynde We had three models from the First World War. We had a French helmet from 1915, [the Adrian], a German helmet from 1916, and then a helmet that was used by both the British and ...

Feb. 14 (UPI) --A French army helmet used in World War I was as valuable in protecting from shock waves as modern counterparts, a Duke University study revealed on Friday. The Adrian helmet ...

As the story goes, Gen. August-Louis Adrian encountered that wounded French soldier and was suddenly inspired to create a helmet. Brilliant read, but it is dubious at best. At the opening stages ...

"It was only after the tests that we saw that the modern helmet was not better. And then we saw that, in certain scenarios, the French Adrian helmet had performed better."It was only when those ...

And one model in particular, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better than modern designs in protecting from overhead blasts. The research could help improve the blast protection of ...

But a 2014 review conducted by a committee created by the National Academies' National Research Council notes that while the Kevlar-based ACH helmet is a significant evolution from its WWI ...