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(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.
(URL: www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/151.html) The Westinghouse Air Brake Company Originally organized in 1869 to manufacture the air brakes invented by George Westinghouse.The works and the yard together occupied approximately thirty acres. Westinghouse earned 361 patents. 2  Of those 103 patents related to the air brake. 3  One of George's 361 patents is a citywide telephone switching system, created long before widespread use by the telephone companies.