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Seat Belt Inventor John Ydstie talks to Gunnar Ornmark, stepson of Nils Bohlan, the inventor of the modern three-point seatbelt. Bohlan will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Akron, Ohio, tomorrow. The three-point seatbelt is believed to have saved as many as one million lives since its development 43 years ago.

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Seat Belt Inventor

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Seat Belt Inventor

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John Ydstie talks to Gunnar Ornmark, stepson of Nils Bohlan, the inventor of the modern three-point seatbelt. Bohlan will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Akron, Ohio, tomorrow. The three-point seatbelt is believed to have saved as many as one million lives since its development 43 years ago.