Despite being badly gassed, he gave his smoke helmet to the injured man.

We felt at our bayonets, and put our smoke helmets on.

From it they snatched smoke helmets, donned them quickly.

Taking the smoke helmet from the exhausted fire-fighter, the young inventor shouted: "I'll fill your place!"

It was not until 1827 that the first smoke helmets were built, by Augustus Siebe.

One British officer described it as a smoke helmet, a greasy grey-felt bag with a tale window certainly ineffective against gas.

The young inventor was about to reply when several firemen, equipped with smoke helmets which they adjusted as they ran, came running down the street.

In the 1830s the Deane brothers asked Siebe to make a variation of their smoke helmet design for underwater use.

The helmet was a flannel bag, soaked in glycerine, hyposulphite and sodium bicarbonate and known as a Smoke helmet.

A smoke helmet sent over by the captain of the German-Australian liner Augsburg did not need to be used, but greatly impressed the fire brigade staff.

"Yes, it is not likely that a common soldier would-" Blade whirled the smoking helmet on the point of his sword and hurled it at the little priest.

Protected by their smoke helmets, the three conspirators raced through the choking black fog and up the stairs to the office of Peter Kirk and Ralph Jackson.

The brothers John and Charles Deane produce the first diving helmet by adaptation of a smoke helmet produced for them by Augustus Siebe.

He removed his smoke helmet and assisted the officer in charge to restore order and by doing so saved a considerable block in the traffic which would have caused heavy casualties.

Among our new equipment was the P.H. gas helmet, which was substituted for the old smoke helmet and muslin respirator with which we were issued on the Peninsula.

The First Lieutenant's boat took the survivors to the Firedrake and came back with every portable fire-fighting appliance on the ship, they took with them smoke helmets and other rescue gear.

Inspired by a fire accident he witnessed in a stable in England, he designed and patented a "Smoke Helmet" to be used by firemen in smoke-filled areas in 1823.

Invented in 1903 by Dräger & Gerling of Lübeck, Germany, the smoke helmet was a fully enclosed metal helmet with glass face mask, featuring two breathing bags covered by a leather flap worn over the chest.

By 6 July 1915, the entire British army was equipped with the far more effective "smoke helmet" designed by Major Cluny MacPherson, Newfoundland Regiment, which was a flannel bag with a celluloid window, which entirely covered the head.