Due to a request from the Raleigh News & Observer (N&O), and in line with North Carolinaâs State Personnel Law, UNC Health Care will share an updated salary database with the N&O in mid-February. We do not know when the N&O will publish this information.
(Accessed March 2, 2011). Shortly after John Hetrick had witnessed an automobile accident he received a patent in 1953 for a âsafety cushion assembly for automotive vehicles.â His U.S. Patent No. 2,649,311 was the first prototype for airbags. 5.
In his inflatable cushion system, however, the compressed air would be released either by an impacted bumper or by the driver himself. Innovations in the airbag continued into the sixties when Yasusaburo Kobori, President of the Good Idea Center in Tokyo, demonstrated an inflatable restraint system in Detroit (1962). Carl Clark was thinking about airbags, as well.