Traveling in a plane of a certain company, putting on a motorcycle helmet or knowing, for example, that when our car suffers an impact at such speed the airbag will not cause us a trauma , are undoubtedly aspects that concern our security and that every company must take into account.
For this, and since the 70s there are the beloved dummies, they who volunteer in the so-called crash test dummy.They have no life, do not breathe and do not even tremble when they are introduced into a vehicle to hit them against a wall or exercise certain experiments on their bodies.They are patient, silent, and their bodies, of similar weight and characteristics to the human ones, almost never leave very badly.
The dummy was created for it and they have replaced very effectively Before the corpses that were previously used or, unfortunately, the occasional animal.However, in the past, certain engineering needed the experimental subject to interact with the machine, especially in those years when working with the Acceleration and deceleration .Our protagonist today is called John Paul Stapp, and you will be surprised to know that he was a voluntary "guinea pig" to whom we owe many, many things...
The fastest man on Earth and with a great sense of humor
This is what they called John Paul Stapp .This man had an impeccable career in the US air force Colonel, a surgeon, an expert in medicine and biophysics, was in the 1950s, when he was assigned to the Wright-Patterson base research laboratory in Ohio for his skills and knowledge.He was about 40 years old when he was aware that to know what were the effects of l To depressure in the human body, it was necessary to experiment with a living subject. And who better than an expert like him?
That's right, I don't hesitate to offer as volunteer and participate in all the tests to study the different oxygenation systems in non-pressurized airplanes and at heights never tested until then.Experience incredible changes in pressure, resistance tests, and everything, without complaining and without suffering excessive damage.more intense came on December 10, 1954, when his body was thrown at a speed higher than that of a bullet.
Result? Many of his blood vessels exploded, he suffered a spill in the eyes and some broken ribs, but nothing more.He was resting for a few months afterwards, continuing with the tests.John Paul Stapp was almost 10 years as "experimental subject" , and then continue as a medical and scientific director, getting that with all this, the world of aeronautics and automotive, improve quality and safety.
You would also like to know that It was our protagonist who disclosed and made Murphy's law famous, publishing in 1992 a collection of these principles that made famous that expression of "If there is something that should go wrong, it will go wrong" .
After almost a life dedicated to the field of experimentation, he had lived many days of that kind, days when everything came out of In fact, I also cite the so-called irony of Stapp , which praises that of "The universal aptitude for ineptitude, makes any human achievement really an incredible miracle."
A great man to whom without a doubt, we owe a lot of things.
Image: Jacques, Byron Villegas
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