Cuirasses and helmets were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century. Tankō, worn by foot soldiers and keikō, worn by horsemen were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese armour constructed from iron plates connected together by leather thongs.

Additionally, several new forms of fully enclosed helmets were introduced in the late 14th century.

( Batting helmets at that time were not required to have an " ear flap "; indeed, it was not until 2002 that all major league batters were required to wear helmets with side protection.

One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day ; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width.

The Cleveland Browns ' team colors were brown, orange and white, then they changed to white, black and orange, and their helmets were solid orange with a white dorsal stripe over the crest.

The Bengals ' team colors were orange, black, and white, and their helmets were a similar shade of orange, with the only variations being the word " Bengals " in block letters on either side of the helmet and no stripe on the helmet.

During the 1976 season, the blue-white-blue stripe on the crown of the helmets were temporarily changed to red-white-blue to commemorate the United States ' bicentennial anniversary.

The helmets and pants were solid silver, the jerseys Honolulu blue with silver numbers and the jersey did not have ' TV numbers ' on the sleeves.

The helmets also did not have a logo, as helmets were simple leather back then.

The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in combat when their faces were hidden by iron and steel helmets.

The Colt's helmets in 1953 were white with a blue stripe.

Large numbers of items such as wheelbarrows, bottled water, helmet lights, knee pads, rain gear, and even football helmets were donated.

The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military.

At the beginning of the Crimean War, such helmets were common amongst infantry and grenadiers, but soon fell out of place in favour of the fatigue cap.

These helmets were sometimes referred to as lobster-tail helmets by allied forces due to their distinctive curved neck guard.

All helmets produced for the infantry before and during 1914 were made of leather.

In September 1915 it was ordered that the new helmets were to be worn without spikes, when in the front line.

In 1990, the uniform design changed to black helmets, silver pants, and either black or white jerseys.

The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as " Metallic Silver Blue " ( PMS 8240 C ) and have a blue / white / blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown.

The design consists of silver helmets, silver pants, and either blue or white jerseys.

The uniform was designed by Debret, in white and red, with plumed bronze helmets.

The Peruvian Dragoon Guard has throughout its existence worn French-style uniforms of black tunic and red breeches in winter and white coat and red breeches in summer, with red and white plumed bronze helmets with the coat of arms of Peru and golden epaulettes.

Viking fans are known to dress up in " Helga hats ", or purple hats with white horns and blonde braids, mimicking the helmets popularly believed to have been worn by Viking warriors.

The team's logo is a fleur-de-lis ( a symbol of the City of New Orleans and of France's Royal Family, which included the House of Bourbon ), while its uniform design consists of gold helmets, gold pants, and either black or white jerseys.

From 1970 to ' 73, they wore the white helmets with Kelly green wings exclusively before switching back to Kelly green helmets with silver wings.

The lightning bolts on the jerseys and helmets were white, with navy interior trim and gold outlining.

From 1966 through 1971, the pants with both the blue and white jerseys were silver, to match the color of the helmets.

From 1960 to about 1965, and from 1972 to 1974, they wore blue helmets ; from 1966 to 1971, the helmets were silver ; and they were white from 1975 to 1998.

The uniforms consist of white helmets, red trim, and either navy or white jerseys.

Also in 2009, the team honored former Quarterback Steve McNair, by placing a small navy blue disc on the back of their helmets, inside of the navy blue disk, a white number 9 ( 9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers / Titans ).

foot-soldiers, instantly recognizable by their white, egg-shaped helmets.

Examples are Ulthwé's black armor and bone helmets, Alaitoc's blue armor and yellow helmets, and Saim-hann's red armor and white helmets.

The rest of this faction also all had the same thin moustaches, and wore a spike on their helmets, similar to those on Imperial German helmets.

Soldiers equipped with shields, helmets and highly effective body armor had a major advantage over warriors protected, in many cases, with nothing other than their shields, particularly in a prolonged engagement.

At first, the team had planned to wear silver helmets at home and blue helmets on the road, but since NFL rules forbid the use of multiple helmets, the team held the fan poll to decide which color helmet would be worn.

In the first place, he notes that archaeological information suggests that Philistine helmets generally had a forehead covering, in some cases extending down to the nose.

While France used smaller bearskins, Spain preferred towering ones with long flowing bags, and while Britain had its tall cloth mitres with lacing and braiding, Russia would sport equally tall leather helmets with brass front-plates.

Apart from the MoD and DOS sites on the south side of the A3, Gala Cosmetics had a large production facility as did Andre Rubber ( who specialised in bonding rubber to metal and made components for cars, docks, armoured fighting vehicles, hospitals, warships and diving helmets )-now the site of the Hook Rise South Industrial Park.

This incident had another effect: the first helmets appeared on batsmen's heads.

The information gleaned from cadaver research and animal studies had already been put to some use in the construction of human simulacra as early as 1949, when " Sierra Sam " was created by Samuel W. Alderson at his Alderson Research Labs ( ARL ) and Sierra Engineering Co. to test aircraft ejection seats, aviation helmets and pilot restraint harnesses.

However, even in civilian dress, having traded their green berets for sun helmets, they still had a military appearance.

The following month the NFL honored his legacy by wearing a decal on the back of the Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots helmets during Super Bowl XXXI that had the NFL shield with Pete in cursive on it.

The Macedonian, Thracian, Dacian and 12th-century Norman military helmets had a forward peaked top resembling the Phrygian cap called Phrygian type helmets.

The badly armoured Scots with their unvisored helmets had no protection against the repeated volleys.

The men had run from their building tasks to fall into ranks but many did not even have time to put on their helmets or take the covers off their shields.

The Japodian tribe ( found from Istria in Croatia to Bihać in Bosnia ) have had an affinity for decoration with heavy, oversized necklaces out of yellow, blue or white glass paste, and large bronze fibulas, as well as spiral bracelets, diadems and helmets out of bronze.

The lightweight demand helmets in general use by surface supplied divers are integrally ballasted for neutral buoyancy in the water, so they do not float off the diver's head or pull upwards on the neck, but the larger volume free-flow helmets would be too heavy and cumbersome if they had all the required weight built in.

Herge had initially designed space helmets very similar to the ones used in real life, however he designed the Perspex goldfish bowl ' type of helmet so that the characters could be identified more easily.

Tintin admits to have had no training in driving such a vehicle, a rather odd neglect, and it is only when they first try it out on the Moon that they decide that crash helmets should be worn while travelling in it.

By the end of the war some 7. 5 million Brodie helmets had been produced, including 1. 5 million M1917 helmets for use by American forces.