The Higher Invention Committee attends kite flying and watches an airship in the sky.
Soldiers are taught to use the Lewis Machine Gun, a fixed mount weapon, during military training using pictures.
The Invention Department tests Gabriel Voisin's inflatable hangar. Inflatable in less than one minute, it is submitted to military authority for use by soldiers. When inflated, a huge tarpaulin connec...
Jules-Louis Breton and the members of the Invention Department Studies and Technical Experiments Section attend flame-thrower tests in a field and in a trench.
A plane drops bombs from different altitudes to study the trajectory of the projectiles and calculate the freefall time.
In June 1919 at the Mailly military camp, tanks carry out traction tests on rough terrain while Marshal Pétain looks on.
Lieutenant Lender and Paul Heldelberg present the "Piloteur" to the Invention Department's Technical Aeronautic Committee. Using this device, which is anchored to the ground, student pilots can learn...
In a field, soldiers, officers, civilians, and Jules-Louis Breton, members of the Invention Department Committee, study different types of machine guns designed to be fired at tanks.