Hugh DeHaven

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Hugh DeHaven (born March 3, 1895 in Brooklyn , New York , † February 13, 1980 in Lyme , Connecticut ) partly also De Haven , was a pilot, engineer and pioneer of accident research .

education

DeHaven studied at Cornell University (1914-15) and Columbia University (1915-16). As part of the mobilization of World War I , he volunteered with the US Army Air Corps in 1916 , but was retired. DeHaven was accepted into the Royal Canadian Flying Corps , Toronto , Canada and trained as a pilot in Texas , USA .

In 1917, while he was still in training, he was involved in a collision with another aircraft during flight exercises. In his opinion, the lap belt used at the time, which was introduced so that the pilots could not fall out of the cockpit while flying, was the cause of his serious abdominal injuries. The reason for the intactness of the other pilot involved was the undamaged structure of the aircraft's cockpit. These two findings formed the basis for his later work as an accident researcher.

inventor

From 1918 to 1933 DeHaven was an inventor and engineer for automated machines and fluid couplings. In 1933 he was able to live so well on his inventions that he retired.

Accident researcher

In 1936, DeHaven studied the stability and kinetics of eggs in free fall as a model for plane crashes. The results, along with analyzes of real aircraft accidents, he published in 1942 in the journal War Medicine . DeHaven tried to make accidents “survivable” by not exceeding the load limits of the human body and by making the structures surrounding people so strong (rigid) that they offered protection in the event of an accident. This is known today as passive safety .

In April 1942, DeHaven became a researcher at Cornell University's medical school , where he set up the traffic safety division, the Cornell Crash Injury Research (CIR) program .

In 1952 he published his most important article: Accident Survival (The survival of accidents).

Together with Roger W. Grinswold, DeHaven patented today's three-point belt in 1955 , a combination of shoulder and lap belt from the point of view of the time.

Life

DeHaven had been married since 1922, his wife died in 1970. He intentionally poisoned himself with carbon monoxide in 1980 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hugh DeHaven . In: Safety and Health Hall of Fame International . ( shhofi.org ( memento of October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed October 13, 2012]).
  2. ↑ Microbio at Dynamic Science, Inc. ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exodyne.com
  3. ↑ a b c d BSM: The Hugh DeHaven, Ph.D. (1895-1980) Papers . Finding Aid To. Ed .: Medical Center Archives of New York-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell. 1983 ( med.cornell.edu [PDF; 52 kB ; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
  4. ^ Hugh DeHaven: Mechanical Analysis of Survival in Falls from Heights of Fifty to One Hundred and Fifty Feet . In: War Medicine . tape 2 , 1942, p. 586-596 .
  5. ^ Hugh DeHaven: Mechanical Analysis of Survival in Falls from Heights of Fifty to One Hundred and Fifty Feet . In: William Hardon, Edward A. Suchman, David Klein (Eds.): Accident Research . Methods and Approaches. 1st edition. Harper & Row, New York 1964, chap. 9 , p. 539-547 (reprinted by Hugh DeHaven 1942).
  6. ^ Carl E. Nash: Hugh DeHaven . Still relevant for rollovers. In: Government / Industry Meeting . SAE2009. Washington DC February 3, 2009, p. 3 ( sae.org [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
  7. ^ Hugh DeHaven: Accident Survival . Airplane and Passenger Automobile. In: Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) . SAE, 1952.
  8. ^ Hugh DeHaven: Accident Survival . Airplane and Passenger Automobile. In: William Hardon, Edward A. Suchman, David Klein (Eds.): Accident Research . Methods and Approaches. 1st edition. Harper & Row, New York 1964, chap. 9 , p. 562-568 (reprinted by Hugh DeHaven 1952).
  9. ↑ Roger W. Grinswold, Hugh DeHaven: U.S. Patent 2,710,649 . Combination Shoulder and Lap Safety Belts. United States Patent Office, June 14, 1955 ( patft.uspto.gov [accessed September 18, 2011]).
personal data
SURNAME DeHaven, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Haven, Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pilot, engineer, and pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1980
Place of death Lyme , Connecticut