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.
Over time, various manufacturers have used different terms for airbags. In the 1970s, General Motors marketed its first airbag modules under the unwieldy name Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS). Common terms in North America refer to a nominal role as a supplement to active restraints, i.e. seat belts.