This Day in History: Nils Bohlin, inventor of the three-point seatbelt, dies at 82
On September 21, 2002, Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin dies after a heart attack. Bohlin spent most of the 1950s developing ejection seats for Saab airplanes, and in 1958, he became the Volvo Car Corporation’s first safety engineer.
Born in Härnösand, Sweden, he received a diploma in mechanical engineering from Härnösand Läroverk in 1939. In 1942 he started working for the aircraft maker Saab as an aircraft designer and helped develop ejection seats. In 1958 he joined Volvo as a safety engineer. He is credited with the invention of the modern 3-point safety belt, now a standard safety feature in all cars. He retired in 1985.
In 1999 he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. In 2002 he was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was a great guy...married Luis Ventier and had 5 children.
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Source: This Day in History: Nils Bohlin, inventor of the three-point seatbelt, dies at 82
In 1999 he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. In 2002 he was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was a great guy...married Luis Ventier and had 5 children.
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At Volvo, he designed the first three-point safety belt--a seatbelt with one strap that crossed diagonally across the user’s chest and another that secured his or her hips. “In a way,” Bohlin said shortly before he died, “my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer. The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don’t want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.” |
Source: This Day in History: Nils Bohlin, inventor of the three-point seatbelt, dies at 82
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