The Higher Invention Committee examines the Chilowsky shrapnel to increase the power of projectiles.
A group of officers and civilians attends the assembly and test-firing of the 240mm Trench Mortar.
The Department of Inventions, Studies, and Technical Experiments organizes the de-mining of a large amount of unexploded shells from the war at the Suippes military camp, settled on the ruins of the T...
The department of inventions, studies, and technical experiments on powders and explosives carries out test explosions off Toulon. The technical and scientific team prepares the experiment aboard a bo...
During the First World War, Louise de Bettignies and Léonte Vanhout crossed the Dutch border fifteen times to deliver information to the English troops positioned in front of Arras. They were arreste...
Aboard a small boat pulled by a tugboat in the Toulon harbor, Jules-Louis Breton and some members of the Invention Department Technical Engineering Committee try out underwater goggles to find a subma...
The Higher Invention Committee attends anti-torpedo test-firing beside a lake.
During the war, from 1914 to 1918, a cable-operated funicular railway built by the company Etcheverry is loaded with boxes of ammunition and tested in the open countryside at ground level and over wat...