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February 20, 2005
somewhere, a crash test dummy mourns
Samuel W. Alderson, the inventor of crash test dummies died this
past week at the age of 90. Mr. Alederson 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 in testing ejection seats and parachutes. The dummies were built to approximate the weight and density of humans and hold data-gathering instruments.
A history of crash test dummies can be found here, here and here.
Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 09:41 AM.
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