But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the first hard hat, basing it on the Doughboy helmet he wore as a soldier in World War I. The helmet was made of canvas, glue, and ...

The result: a “hard hat” for flight crews—the H-1 helmet for the Navy and P-1 for the Army Air Forces (forerunner of the Air Force)—that became standard-issue gear in 1947. “Take a ...

But helmets today aren’t what they once were — they’re no longer the “Hard Boiled Hats” made of canvas and leather, painted black and coated with shellac that Edward Bullard first ...

Whether you're working with certain volatile materials in a workshop or just carrying large loads around a jobsite, you should always have proper head protection. All forms of safety equipment are ...

Offering protection from both top and side impacts, these new safety helmets are the industry’s lightest weight full brim ...