Seat belts are indispensable safety equipment in today’s vehicles. The safety of passengers in the car must be protected by seat belts and other safety equipment. As an indispensable safety equipment in cars, many people will think that seat belts were invented after the birth of cars, but in fact, seat belts were invented before cars were born.
The earliest seat belt was invented by British engineer George Cayley in the early 19th century. Edward J. Claghorn's New Yorker registered the patent first on February 10, 1885, and the seat belt finally appeared. And used on carriages to prevent passengers from falling off the carriage.
In 1911, U.S. Marine General Benjamin Foulois installed seat belts on a Wright Flyer Signal Corps 1 aircraft, but the purpose was not for safety, but because of some of the During the war, the take-off and landing sites were uneven and the pilots could not control the plane's taxiing well. The seat belts were used to better fix the body on the seat. But it wasn’t until World War II that seat belts were installed on airplanes.
In the 1950s, Dr. C. Hunter Shelden opened his own neurology department at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Many of his patients came to see patients with brain injuries caused by car accidents. Then we began to develop retractable seat belts for some common cases. His invention was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 5, 1955. It was not until 1959 that the U.S. Congress finally passed a resolution establishing standardized automobile safety standards.
In fact, Nash and Ford began to make seat belts available as optional equipment in 1949 and 1955, but people did not pay attention to them at the time. It wasn't until Saab released the Saab GT? 750 at the New York Auto Show in 1958 that seat belts appeared as standard equipment on Saab models.
The basic three-point seat belt commonly used in cars today was invented and patented by Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven in 1955. Later, the Swiss inventor Nils Bohlin improved it and it became standard equipment on Volvo models in 1959.
Until 1968, the United States stipulated that all forward-facing seats in cars must be equipped with seat belts. Developed countries such as Europe and Japan also successively formulated regulations requiring car occupants to wear seat belts. my country issued a notice on November 15, 1992, stipulating that from July 1, 1993, all passenger car drivers and front seat passengers must use seat belts.
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