Crash-Test Dummy Inventor Dies

Samuel W. Alderson, inventor of the crash-test dummy, died at 90 on Februrary 11 at his home in Los Angeles as a result of complications from pneumonia.

Here's a link to Margalit Fox's superb obituary of Alderson, which appeared in the February 18 New York Times.

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