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Nils Bohlin, the Swedish engineer and inventor responsible for the three-point lap and shoulder seatbelt

born on July 17, 1920

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

its modern form by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo—who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.

A seat belt, also known as a safety belt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the occupant of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop.

reduce the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision

Swedish inventor, Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seat belt

Nils Bohlin's lap-and-shoulder belt was introduced by Volvo in 1959. Seat Belt Terminology

3-Point Seat Belt: A seat belt with both a lap and a shoulder portion, having three attachment points (one shoulder, two hips).

Our last word in business is about a little product that requires concise writing. Thirty years ago this month, it hit stores across the country. Scientists at the office products conglomerate 3M had stumbled upon a new kind of adhesive, one that could stick to many surfaces and be pulled off easily and repositioned.

Since 1980, they have been a top-selling office supply. They're no longer just three-by-three inches and light yellow in color. The little sticky pads come in eight sizes, and dozens of shapes and colors.

heir contribution to human progress has been so great that Post-It note inventers Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver were inducted last month into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

A fountain pen is a nib pen that, unlike its predecessor the dip pen, contains an internal reservoir of water-based liquid ink. The pen draws ink from the reservoir through a feed to the nib and deposits it on paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. Filling the reservoir with ink may be achieved manually (via the use of a Pasteur pipette or syringe), or via an internal filling mechanism which creates suction (for example, through a piston mechanism) to transfer ink directly through the nib into the reservoir. Some pens employ removable reservoirs in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges. A fountain pen needs little or no pressure to write.

liest historical record of a reservoir pen dates to the 10th century. In 953, Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the caliph of the Maghreb, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib, which could be held upside-down without leaking, as recorded i

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Coover was a long-time IRI member who served on the Board of Directors 1977-1983, serving as president 1981-1982. He was also the only person ever to win all three IRI awards. He was awarded the IRI Medal in 1984, just after his retirement from Eastman Kodak Company. Subsequently, he won the 1987 Maurice Holland Award for the best paper to appear in Research-Technology Management in 1986, for a paper entitled "Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success," published in the November-December 1986 issue of RTM. And he was awarded the 1999 IRI Achievement Award in recognition of his work with cyanoacrylate adhesives, as well as for "his prolific scientific achievements recorded in more than 60 papers and 460 patents." Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation shortly before his death, also for his work with cyanoacrylates.

Nils Bohlin of Sweden is credited with creating the first modern three-point safety belt. Bohlin's belt, which combined both lap and shoulder straps, was first used in Volvos in the late 1950s

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