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Nils Bohlin

A man wearing glasses, a dark sweater over a light blue shirt, and a seatbelt strap across his chest sits against a neutral background.

Swedish engineer (1920–2002) who designed the modern three-point seatbelt while working at Volvo in 1958, drawing on his earlier work on ejection seats at Saab. Earlier belts crossed only the lap or only the chest; Bohlin's combined both into a single buckle that could be operated one-handed. Volvo opened the patent to every other manufacturer in 1959. The design is estimated to have saved more than a million lives.

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