Functional but Bizarre Design Features of 2,000-Year-Old Greek Battle Helmets

This helmet was designed in 1915 by Latvian inventor and British citizen John Leopold Brodie: Image: National Army Museum Made of steel, it was designed for mass production; the Brodie helmet, as it came to be called, was cut from a sheet in one piece, then pressed into shape. It was issued to Commonwealth forces, and later U.S. soldiers, during World War I. This Chalcidian helmet was fabricated around 2,200 years earlier, sometime around 350-250 B.C., by a designer whose name we'll...