Image shows a shrapnel gas shell designed and researched by Richter of the Chemical Warfare Service's Research Division. The shell contains black powder, stannis-chloride, and chloropicrin. The photo was taken two seconds after the explosion. This image was received on July 12, 1918, from the Chemical Warfare Service and has the description number ISSUED AU.

---

Size: 8486px × 5794px
Photo credit: © piemags/NSC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: .., 1, 12, 1170, 1918, activities, american, black, chemical, chloropicrin, combustible, division, documentation, efforts, explosion, explosive, gas, july, material, military, mixture, operations, photograph, photography, planning, powder, project, projectile, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnics, researc, research, richter, richters, service, shell, shells, shrapnel, soldier, stannis-chloride, strategy, tactics, technology, toxic, war, warfare, wartime, weapons, world