He also worked in shipyards before he became chief assistant in the Vickers Airship Department in 1913. There, while working on the R80 airship, he developed an innovative geodetic design that ...

The tin helmet, the machine gun and the R80 airship are just three examples of how the homefront had a major impact on the way World War One was waged. Many of the places where they were created ...

Vickers were builders of British dirigibles or rigid airships, like the German Zeppelin. The construction of the R80 began in November 1917. The design was to follow that of the Zahn shape ...

A rock-hard biscuit, a woollen leg bandage and the sound that sent men "over the top" - stories behind products of an industrial war.