Nils Ivar Bohlin lived from 17 July 1920 to 21 September 2002 and was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. The source lead states this achievement and nothing more, so it gives no account of the belt's development, its introduction in cars or his other work. He is included in the atlas because the three-point belt is a road vehicle safety device that changed how people are protected while travelling by car, and this description is limited to the identity, dates and single invention the lead reports.
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How was Nils Bohlin's seat belt different from the belts that came before it?
It secured the upper and lower body with two straps that joined at the hip and buckled into an anchor point.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, earlier belts did not work the way his did. Bohlin's creation secured both the upper and the lower body by means of two straps that joined at the hip and buckled into an anchor point. That is the design known as the three-point seat belt.
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was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor
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1. Nils Bohlin (Wikipedia)
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17 July 1920
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21 September 2002
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was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor
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Nils Ivar Bohlin (17 July 1920-21 September 2002) was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo.
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