Almanac: Crash test dummies
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 11th, 2005, 13 years ago today … the day physicist and engineer Samuel Alderson died at the age of 90. Auto safety advocates honor Alderson to this day for developing the very first Anthropomorphic Test Device — popularly known as “the crash dummy.” He did it back in 1968. Endowed…