philippio Posted February 18 Report Share Posted February 18 No not in a car accident, although that would be ironic. Crash Test Dummy Inventor Alderson Dies Fri Feb 18, 9:35 AM ET U.S. National - AP MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - Samuel W. Alderson, the inventor of crash test dummies that are used to make cars, parachutes and other devices safer, has died. He was 90. Alderson died Feb. 11 at home of complications from myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disorder, his son Jeremy said. He grew up tinkering in his father's custom sheet-metal shop, worked on various military technology and by 1952 had formed Alderson Research Labs. The company made anthropomorphic dummies for use by the military and NASA (news - web sites) in testing ejection seats and parachutes. The dummies were built to approximate the weight and density of humans and hold data-gathering instruments. One type of dummy he developed measured radiation doses. There was little interest in his first automobile test dummy, he once said, until publication of Ralph Nader (news - web sites)'s consumer protection book "Unsafe at Any Speed" in 1965. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was passed a year later. Before creating dummies, he worked on missile guidance systems and helped develop a coating to enhance vision on submarine periscopes during World War II. He left his original company in 1973 to form a competing crash test dummy maker, and the two companies were dominant in the market until eventually merging in 1990 to form First Technology Safety Systems. In addition to son Jeremy, he is survived by another son, a sister and four grandchildren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted February 18 Report Share Posted February 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Sad, he save so many lives and made bucks doing it...Now all those people that have passed away due to car wrecks are waiting for him to beat his ass down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 dummy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 dummy!!! whats your excuse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 whats your excuse?your mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 whats your name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 whats your name?nathaniel hornblower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 My Name is Peter Griffen... I like Miami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I heard musical guest at the funeral was Dave Matthews who appropiately performed his hit song "Crash (Into me)"On a sad related story, the car that was carrying Alderson's casket slammed into a concrete wall at 70 mph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 that is soooo o oo sad, this one time I saw this cool car get crashed againt a wall, sad to say the car was not as cool any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 that is soooo o oo sad, this one time I saw this cool car get crashed againt a wall, sad to say the car was not as cool any more.wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Mmmm...Mmmmm...ooooohhhhh...too bad for the Crash Test Dummies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 yeah bad drivers really suck, this one time I got a flat tire while I was driving down US-1, it sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 yeah bad drivers really suck, this one time I got a flat tire while I was driving down US-1, it sucked.oh the humanity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 oh the humanity... nah that not the half of it,after that some colored guy came out and startedand I got really scared funketeer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 nah that not the half of it,after that some colored guy came out and startedand I got really scaredplease stop, you are killing me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I heard the dj at the funeral kept crashing...spookie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 ok ok, but I got this really long pointless store of this cooool trance song.....should hear it some day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I Think DJ's are dummies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 ok ok, but I got this really long pointless store of this cooool trance song.....should hear it some day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I Think DJ's are dummies.You know there's a lot of djs on this board, I hope you know comments like those could get you in a lot of trouble mr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I know you are but what am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I know you are but what am I? hahaha.... ugh.I'm rubber you're glue what u call me sticks to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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