In a field, soldiers, officers, civilians and Jules-Louis Breton, members of the Invention Department Committee, study the manoeuvrability of military equipment used to transport ammunition.
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 Invention Department's aeronautic technical committee and Edmond Rothé place an electric-oscillation anemometer under an elongated tethered balloon with low cubic volume. The method uses only one...
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...
Soldiers from the Russian army have set up an encampment and are eating on the outskirts of a forest, in thick snowfall. Near a village, cannons are fired. Men, women, and children, on their way into ...
May 1916. A large detachment of prisoners arrives at the Souilly (Meuse) camp. The detachment stands out, with prisoners from Alsace, Poland and Denmark. Featuring: A panorama of the camp and its wall...