Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1888 — To Protect Firemen. [ARTICLE]

To Protect Firemen.

A new helmet for firemen has been invented in Bremen. It consists principally of a copper mask, which is very light. The wearer’s nose, mouth and eyes receive through an India rubber tube a constant stream of pure air, which leaves the helmet by an opening opposite the eyes and prevents the entrance of smoke, The helmet has been practically tested and is to be used by the Berlin firemen, it is said. Mount Vesuvius serves as a gigantic barometer and thermometer for Naples. The direction in which the smoke from the crater blows indicates, unerringly a coming change of weather twenty-four hours'in advance. Also the approach of the hot and depressing sirocco.