An accident during a Sunday afternoon trip to the Pennsylvania countryside inspired John W. Hetrick to design one ... Their early airbag designs inspired others in the automotive industry to ...

John Hetrick, an industrial engineering technician ... General Motors lays claim to manufacturing the first commercial automotive airbag. The company's Delco division produced the industry's ...

We’re talking about the automotive airbag, the invention of which is credited to an American industrial engineer and member of the U.S. Navy, John W. Hetrick, who patented the original system in ...

General Motors lays claim to manufacturing the first commercial automotive airbag. But GM couldn't ... independent Rhode Island inventor named John Hetrick. According to the story that Hetrick ...

In 1952, John Hetrick was out enjoying a Sunday drive ... it wasn't granted until November 1953. Linderer's airbag patent had provisions for the use of compressed air or an explosive charge ...

You probably haven’t heard of John W Hetrick ... The invention of the automobile airbag is credited both to Hetrick and the German engineer Walter Linderer, who both registered patents in ...