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.
Like seat belts, the concept of the airbag -- a soft pillow to land against in a crash -- has been around for many years. The first patent on an inflatable crash-landing device for airplanes was filed during World War II. In the 1980s, the first commercial airbags appeared in automobiles.