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Despite feeling relatively modern, the airbag’s roots go back more than a century, with two Birmingham, Alabama dentists submitting a patent “for the covering of aeroplane and other vehicle parts” in 1919.
That said, the first automobile airbag patent application wasn’t approved until 1953, and only in the late 1980s and early 1990s did this brilliant safety innovation become widespread.
