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Garrett Warren

The man who saved a million lives: Nils Bohlin - inventor of the seatbelt - Features - ... - 0 views

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    Information on the three-point seat belt and how it saved millions of lives after being invented.
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    seat belt info
Trey Mcintyre

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  • Earning the ENERGY STAR means products meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. By choosing ENERGY STAR certified heating and cooling equipment and taking steps to optimize its performance, you can enhance the comfort of your home while saving energy. Saving energy helps you save money on utility bills and protect our climate by helping prevent harmful carbon pollution and reducing other greenhouse gases.
  • he central air conditioner also needs a blower motor – which is usually part of the furnace – to blow the cool air through the duct system. The only way to ensure that your new air conditioner performs at its rated efficiency is to replace your heating system at the same time. It’s especially recommended if your furnace is over 15 years old. If you purchase a new energy-efficient air conditioner but connect it to an older furnace and blower motor, your system will not perform to its rated efficiency.  
Morgan Pearson

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article Nils Bohlin seat belt information

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  • Swedish-born
  • saved hundreds of thousands of lives
  • was first offered by Volvo in 1959.
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  • When Volvo CEO Gunnar Engelau lost a relative in a car crash, he recruited Bohlin to boost safety.
  • unused except by race car drivers
  • late 1950s, only two-point lap belts were available
  • he knew the limitations of lap belts
  • focused on combating the harsh deceleration forces of crashes.
  • Within a year
  • widely-used life-saver
  • industry's most effective
  • He died in 2002 at the age of 82.
  • Members of the Hall of Fame selection committee
  • Nils Bohlin's seat belt saves lives.
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    Article of someone writing information about Nils Bohlin.
Nathanael Nix

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  • In 2005 more than 100 million cell phones were discarded in the United States, equalling over 50,000 tons of still-usable equipment
  • Less than 1 percent of the millions of cell phones retired and discarded annually are recycled
  • Over 3 billion people globally own mobiles: if each of them returned one phone for recycling, over 240,000 tons of raw materials could be saved. The carbon emissions saved from this would be the equivalent to taking 4 million cars off the road
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  • To make one phone, over 2kgs of raw materials are required, including petroleum-based plastics, liquid crystal display materials, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and toxic heavy metals including cadmium, lead, nickel, mercury, manganese, lithium, zinc, arsenic, antimony, beryllium and copper.  If not properly recycled, toxins from these materials can seep from mobile devices into the environment when discarded in landfill, where they can accumulate in the food chain and cause damage to plants, animals and humans
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    This is a good informational sight about phone facts.
Morgan Pearson

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Nils Bohlin quotes seat belt inventor

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    Information on Nils Bohlin and quotes from him while inventing the three-point seat belt.
Garrett Warren

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    pic of seat belt inventer
Morgan Pearson

Nils Ivar Bohlin - Inventor of the Three-point seat belt - Natioanl Inventors Hall of F... - 0 views

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Nils Bohlin Inventor Invention three point seat belt

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  • Swedish inventor, Nils Bohlin for bringing  the expertise of his aviation experience to the world of cars.  
  •  1958) has saved the lives of many individuals unfortunate enough to be involved in road traffic incidents.  The Swedish aircraft company of Svenska Aeroplan AB ( SAAB) had been experimenting with escape devices for their aircraft and Bohlin had been working on these inventions.
  • Volvo gave him the opportunity to improve on the simpler seat belt in use at that time.   In 1999 he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of fame and in 2002, the year of his death, he was inducted into the
  • Garrett Warren on 17 Jan 14
     
    seat belt info
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    Nils Bohlin and the three-point seat belt.
Morgan Pearson

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  • Nils Ivar Bohlin
  • born in 1920 in Harnosand, Sweden
  • 1939 he completed his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Harnosand Laroveik.
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  • he was in charge of the development of ejection seats
  • ired as a safety engineer for AB Volvo in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • . Safety belts were in use at the time, but the most prevalent design used a single strap with a buckle over the stomach. This design risked injury to body organs in high-speed crashes.
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      Morgan Pearson on 09 Jan 14
       
      Really good information and details on what happened while Nils Bohlin was inventing the three-point seat belt.
  • Bohlin aimed to find an alternative design that would not only protect both the upper and lower body, but would also be comfortable and simple to use.
  • The design held both the upper and lower body in place, and was simple enough that the driver could buckle up with one hand.
  • In 1958, Bohlin was h
  • by 1963 all Volvos came equipped with front seat belts, and the company decided to make the design free for use by all car makers.
  • In 1959, Volvo became the first auto maker to introduce Bohlin’s three-point safety belt design.
  • The report claimed that the belt had already saved thousands of lives, reducing the risk of injury or death in car accidents by as much as 75 percent.
  • It persuaded a number of other national governments to do the same
  • Since its introduction, the three-point shoulder/lap safety belt has changed very little in its overall design.
  • As of today, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the belts reduce the risk of deaths in car crashes by at least 45 percent.
  • Bohlin retired from Volvo in 1985.
  • In 1974 Bohlin was awarded The Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award.
  • honored in 1979 and in 1985 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, D.C. In 1995, he received a medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2002, he was inducted into the (U.S.) National Inventors Hall of Fame. On the day he was to be honored for this achievement, Bohlin died at age 82.
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    Information on Nils Bohlin while inventing the seat belt.
Morgan Pearson

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Nils Bohlin seat belt inventor

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      This is a good site for info.
  • Nils I. Bohlin Born Jul 17 1920
  • Nils Bohlin, while with Volvo, invented the three-point safety belt, a standard in the modern automobile.
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  • restraining the body in high-speed crashes and in preventing ejection.
  • the seat belt saves over four thousand lives and prevents over 100,000 injuries a year.
  • he understood the limitations of restraint devices, particularly those that were uncomfortable and difficult to use.
  • The seat belt proved so effective that Volvo sent Bohlin to America to promote his seat belt to the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
  • member of the Automotive Hall of Fame
  • A native of Sweden
  • Morgan Pearson on 10 Jan 14
     
    A little bit of information.
Garrett Warren

Three-point seatbelt inventor Nils Bohlin born - History.com This Day in History - 7/17... - 0 views

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      great info on Nils Bohlin
  • Nils Bohlin, the Swedish engineer and inventor responsible for the three-point lap and shoulder seatbelt
  • born on July 17, 1920
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  • 1959, only two-point lap belts were available in automobiles
  • only people who regularly buckled up were race car drivers.
  • high-speed crashes had been known to cause serious internal injuries
  • Volvo Car Corporation hired Bohlin
  • designed ejector seats for Saab fighter airplanes in the 1950s, to be the company's first chief safety engineer
  • three-point seat belt, introduced in Volvo cars in 1959.
  • Volvo made the new seat belt design available to other car manufacturers for free;
  • required on all new American vehicles from 1968 onward
  • 1959, engineers have worked to enhance the three-point belt, but the basic design remains Bohlin's.
  • Bohlin's death in September 2002,
  • seat belt had saved more than one million
  • 11,000 lives each yea
  • Morgan Pearson on 10 Jan 14
     
    Really good information and detail on Nils Bohlin inventing the three-point seatbelt.
De Anna Jo Powell

Inventor of the Week: Archive - 0 views

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inventor notes Harry Coover

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      Tells about how he discovered and rediscovered it.
  • The incredibly stable adhesive known as Super Glue ™ was invented by accident in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover. Today the substance is somewhat of a household necessity, with uses ranging from simple woodworking and appliance repair to industrial binding and medical applications.
  • Born in Newark, Delaware on March 6, 1919, Coover received his B.S. from Hobart College and continued his studies at Cornell University, where he earned an M.S. in chemistry 1942 and Ph.D. in 1944. Shortly thereafter he began working for Eastman-Kodak’s chemical division in Rochester, New York.
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  • conducting research with chemicals known as cyanoacrylates in an effor
  • extremely sticky
  • t to find a way to make a clear plastic that could be used for precision gunsights for soldiers.
  • discovered
  • World War II
  • Moisture causes the chemicals to polymerize
  • bonding
  • would occur in
  • virtually every testing instance
  • Kodak’s chemical plant
  • transferred
  • 1951,
  • re-discovered
  • new potential
  • Eastman 910
  • began marketing it in 1958.
  • Vietnam War
  • apparent that cyanoacrylates could be used to treat war wounds
  • stopped bleeding
  • saved many lives during the war and lead to the eventual approval by the FDA
  • rejoining veins
  • arteries during surgery,
  • punctures or lesions
  • sealing bleeding ulcers
  • stopping uncontrollable bleeding of some soft organs,
  • dental surgery.
  • awarded more than 460 patents
  • wrote at least 60 papers
  • Industrial Research Institute Medal Achievement Award,
  • ACS Earl B. Barnes Award,
  • Maurice Holland Award
  • AIC Chemical Pioneers Award
  • National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 15 Jan 14
     
    A very good website
Morgan Pearson

A Nils Bohlin-Volvo Invention in All Cars 3-Point Seat Belt, a Volvo Safety Development... - 0 views

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Nils Bohlin Volvo three point seat belt invention

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    Information on the three-point seat belt.
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