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DIED. ROBERT KEARNS, 77, feisty inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who took on automotive giants to defend his patents; of cancer; in Sykesville, Md. Kearns battled Ford and Chrysler all the way to the Supreme Court, winning $30 million in settlements but never peace of mind...
Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich...
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...