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DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor who created the first automobile crash test dummy, an articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called...
...DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor for NASA and the U.S. military who created the first crash test dummy-an anthropomorphic duplication of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test jet ejection seats and parachutes, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called the "V.I.P...
DIED. H. DAVID DALQUIST, 86, inventor of the Bundt pan, the world's top-selling baking pan; in Edina, Minn. In 1950 at the request of a women's group unhappy with their ceramic bakeware, he made an aluminum pan with folds for easy cutting. It rose to popularity in 1966 when a Texas woman used one to win second place in a Pillsbury Bake...
...DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the inventor of jogging; of an apparent heart attack, while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then-revolutionary concept-that long, slow, distance training, or "LSD," worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running-the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to be a coach for his country's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
...SLUMP By Akira Toriyama Adored and massively popular manga from Akira Toriyama, the creator of DRAGON BALL, Dr. Slump is a madcap, episodic series about a blustering inventor who creates the "perfect" android girl, only to discover that he may have created a monster instead...