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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nature of the war demanded better protection. The French had the Adrian helmet and the Germans the Stahlhelme, but the ...

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 ...

"Indeed, some historical helmets performed better in some respects," Op 't Eynde said. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that the French World War I "Adrian" helmet performed ...

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 ...

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 ...