Rattle, Gas
Garden of the Gulf Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | Rattle, Gas |
| Type de l'objet : | Rattle, Gas |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools & Equipment for Communication |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Sound Communication Tools & Equipment |
| Discipline : | Military history |
| Matériaux : | wood |
| Numéro d'accession : | GG.1778 |
| Fabricant : | unknown |
| Culture : | Canadian |
| Date de début de production : | 1914, c |
| Date de fin de production : | 1918, c |
| Description : | Wooden noise-maker. Rectangular box clapper with a cogged wheel attached to a turned wooden handle. The cogs strike against a wooden slat as the box is spun to create a distinctive rat-a-tat noise. |
| Commentaires : | Chemical attacks came into prominence during World War I. Numerous types of chemical weapons were used during this period, including tearing agents like lachrymator and xylyl bromide, asphyxiates such as chlorine, phosgene and disphosgene gases, and blistering agents such as dichlorethylsulphide, commonly known as mustard gas. Mustard gas was the most dreaded chemical weapon of World War I. Unlike other poisonous gases which attacked the respiratory system and had to be inhaled to be effective, mustard gas affected any exposed skin on contact, was exceedingly painful, and had the tendency to linger for hours or even days. The brown, garlic-scented vapour produced blistering wounds on exposed skin and could severely damage the eyes, respiratory system and internal organs. Death due to mustard gas was usually a result of lung damage. |
| Fonctions : | Noise-makers like this were used during World War I to warn of poisonous gas attacks. Upon viewing or experiencing such an attack, a soldier would hold the rattle aloft and spin it, sometimes in a particular pattern or sequence, to alert anyone within earshot of the presence of poisonous gas. |
| Longueur : | 29 |
| Largeur : | 6 |
| Établissement : |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Montague |
| Province de l'établissement : | Prince Edward Island |
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