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steel protective helmets for soldiers ?

When and where did soldiers wearing steel protective helmets start ?It seems to have been common by the start of WW1

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In WW1 they only wore steel helmets as protection from shrapnel and other debris kicked up by artillery fire. Not protection from bullets oddly enough.
They used to wear entire steel suits of armor in the middle ages. They stopped wearing the armor with the invention of reliable firearms, but steel helmets have been around since then. Before that, they wore iron or bronze helmets. Some armies went to a soft cap through the mid 1800s until fragmentary type artillery rounds appeared. Then helmets started coming back again. WWI was the big return.

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