A modern U.S. Advanced Combat Helmet was also tested. DIARY FROM WORLD WAR I DISCOVERED IN BARN, RECOUNTS BLOODY BATTLE OF THE SOMME ...

The combat helmet we know today didn't come of age until World War I, when artillery and timed air bursts rained shrapnel down on soldiers. As the story goes, August-Louis Adrian, a French ...

Any helmet is still better than no helmet, but at least one World War I-era brain bucket designed by France is better than your modern design in protecting against overhead blasts.

That's because ever since the first modern combat helmet came out in 1915, these so-called "brain buckets" have been designed to protect heads not from invisible shock waves, but from shrapnel ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no ...

While we found that all helmets provided a substantial amount of protection against blast, we were surprised to find that the 100-year-old helmets performed just as well as modern ones.