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 ...

As the casualties mounted, in the summer of 1915 General Adrian quickly developed the Model 1915 "Adrian" helmet – one that could be described as uniquely French.

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 ...

The World War I helmets included the French ‘Adrian’ helmet, the German Stahlhelm helmet, and the American Brodie helmet. To test each helmet, the researchers placed them on a test dummy head ...

The waves were equivalent to the impact of nearby artillery rounds. The French “Adrian” helmet, created in 1915, had the lowest risk for moderate brain bleeding, including the one used today ...

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 ...

The "Brodie" helmet worn by U.S. and British troops in WWI, the French Adrian and the German Stahlhelm "pale in comparison" to the versions sported by today's troops, said Rob DiLalla, the Army's ...

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 ...

however the “Adrian” helmet, created by the French in 1915, had the lowest risk for moderate brain bleeding. Researchers found this fascinating because this helmet was made from the same ...

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 ...

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 ...