Innovations in Safety CYNTHIA O’BRIEN Crabtree Publishing Company www crabtreebooks com
Keeping Safe All around us are inventions and innovations that keep us safe What happens if you fall off your bike You can hurt your head Luckily inventors created a bike helmet long before you started riding bikes Other inventors have made driving on our roads safer Garret Morgan invented traffic lights to help drivers know when to stop and go Inventors and innovators solve a problem or meet a need Look around you Do you see anything that seems unsafe Maybe you will create the next great safety invention or innovation 4 Thanks to inventors and innovators our world today is a much safer place
Inventors and Innovators An inventor creates a product or process that did not exist before The first seatbelt was an invention An innovator changes or improves on an invention that already exists Nils Bohlin was an innovator that improved the seat belt design to create the three-point seat belt which we use today An engineer’s job is to use science and math to solve problems or meet needs Sometimes engineers can also be inventors and innovators when they make new solutions or improve on existing ones Inventors innovators and engineers all share the same traits such as curiosity and creativity Today’s three-point seat belt is an example of an innovation The lap and shoulder belts are connected so you can buckle both with one motion 5
