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Pioneer of airbags reflects on life-saving invention (photo gallery)
MONTROSE, ALABAMA — You may not know the name George F. Kirchoff, but the invention he pioneered is most likely one that you sit within inches of every day yet hope never to see — the automobile airbag.
“A surgeon once told me, ‘You’ve saved more lives than I have,’” recalls Kirchoff, 79.
He is not one to brag. But between 1987 and 2008, airbags saved 25,782 lives according to federal statistics.
In the automotive world, Kirchoff is known as “the father of the airbag,” but the 1955 Auburn graduate emphasizes he was not alone.
It was a team effort, he explains, sitting at his home overlooking Mobile Bay, where he retired in 1998 with his wife, Gene. He stayed involved in the industry for another decade as president of the Automotive Occupant Restraints Council.
For 35 years at Thiokol Inc., Morton International and Autoliv Inc., Kirchoff led the efforts to create the airbag, and holds numerous patents for its assembly.
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