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Love stinks! But it's really all how you look at this illustration. One person might look at it and say "Yeah that's pretty much it. You have to suit up these days to avoid catching a social disease.." But another person might look at this and get all frisky. But another person could look at it as a social commentary, about how we can't know what's inside. Who know's, maybe it's a statement about being too guarded. Or maybe it's a statement about the social need for deodorant. OR maybe it's just a cool illustration. Any way you look at it, I'll never tell. I'd rather leave it up to you.

So here are some fun facts about Gas Masks:

Modern chemical warfare began on April 22, 1915, when German soldiers first used chlorine gas to attack the French in Ypres.

Long before 1915, miners, firemen, and underwater divers all had a need for helmets that could provide breathable air, and the early prototypes for gas masks were developed to meet those needs.

Early Fire Fighting and Diving Masks

1819 - Augustus Siebe marketed an early diving suit. Siebe's suit included a helmet to which air was pumped via a tube to the helmet and spent air escaped from another tube. The inventor founded Siebe, Gorman and Co, a company that developed and manufactured respirators for a variety of purposes and was later instrumental in developing defense respirators.

1823 - Brothers, John and Charles Deane patented a smoke protecting apparatus for firemen that was later modified for underwater divers.

1849 - Lewis P. Haslett patented an "Inhaler or Lung Protector," issued for an air purifying respirator. Haslett's device filtered dust from the air.

1854 - Scottish chemist John Stenhouse invented a simple mask that used charcoal to filter noxious gases.

1860 - Frenchmen, Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouse invented the Résevoir-Régulateur, intended for use in rescuing miners in flooded mines, the Résevoir-Régulateur could be used underwater. The device was made up of a nose clip, and a mouthpiece attached to an air tank that the rescue worker carried on his back.

1871 - British physicist John Tyndall invented a fireman's respirator that filtered air against smoke and gas.

1874 - British inventor, Samuel Barton patented a device that "permitted respiration in places where the atmosphere is charged with noxious gases, or vapors, smoke, or other impurities".

1914 - American, Garrett Morgan patented the Morgan safety hood and smoke protector. Two years later, Garrett Morgan made national news when his gas mask was used to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie. The publicity sold the safety hood to firehouses across the United States. Many historians cite the Morgan design as the basis for early U.S. army gas masks used during WW1.

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