It all began with Mary Ward. In the mid nineteenth century, before gah created women (in the workplace), Mary Ward was an Irish astronomer.
And Mary Ward’s cousins built one of the early steam cars, seventeen years before the invention of the automobile:
On August 3, 1869, Mary Ward became known as the first motor vehicle accident victim when she was thrown from her cousins’ invention.
Since then, with the advent of the gas powered automobile, twenty million people have died in car accidents across the world.
Car manufacturers became aware of the need to redesign cars based on the prevention of passenger injury, but first there needed to be a way to measure the body’s response to the sudden, violent force of collisions.
The first attempts to collect the data of impact was done in Detroit on human cadavers. Steel ball bearings were dropped on skulls, cadavers were dumped down unused elevator shafts onto steel plates, and were subjected to head-on collisions and vehicle rollovers.
Recognizing that the results provided by cadavers accounted for only a fraction of the necessary answers, a few researchers in the 1940s became living participants in momentum experiments.
In the 1960s, animals were routinely used to test the newly invented collapsible steering columns during cabin collision studies.
Meanwhile, in a parallel laboratory, construction of the first human simulacra began in the late 1940s and continues to this day, providing more realistic data of human responses, and better means of measuring and collecting these results.
Bossy would like to wish her esteemed council a happy holiday weekend. Click this link to read Bossy’s post about the time she saw The Easter Bunny in jail.
Or click this link to learn how Bossy throws an Easter Seder.
Or click this link to see Bossy’s special secret Springtime recipe for Trés Leches Cake.
joeinvegas says
March 29, 2013 at 5:31 pmI feel sorry for poor Mary, to go down in history for that.
BSTBXH says
March 29, 2013 at 6:28 pmBossy bees funny, give me giggles like no other…
but in all seriousness, the sophistication, and data generated, by the dummies of today is truly astonishing.
Mr Farty says
March 29, 2013 at 7:19 pmMr Farty thinks road safety would be vastly improved by placing a sharpened steel spike in the center of every steering wheel. Drive careful now!
Mulled Vine says
April 1, 2013 at 10:41 amThis post has given me hope. I am so looking forward to becoming a sophisticated dummy. 😀
Mulled Vine says
April 1, 2013 at 10:42 am(Note sure if image posting works, but thought you might enjoy this cartoon)
Mulled Vine says
April 1, 2013 at 10:42 amIt didn’t 🙁
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/74466_434446469974544_688382646_n.jpg
Her Ace in the Hole says
April 8, 2013 at 1:23 pmI hope they paid those real live dummies well for their work. Just saying.
Lynn says
April 16, 2013 at 12:33 amKnock Knock! Hey Bossy, it’s the 15th of April…where are you???
Meh says
April 23, 2013 at 2:02 pmYet another Bossy disappearing act.
L says
April 27, 2013 at 10:12 pmI think it is time for me to be moving on. It was fun while it lasted. Hope the best for you Bossy. Bye Bye
Lynn says
April 30, 2013 at 3:47 pmI keep on checking….but is does get ridiculously disappointing, Bossy!
amy says
April 30, 2013 at 4:33 pmBossy must be on vacation. A month of blogging….so exhausting!
Mary K says
May 3, 2013 at 12:25 pmIf you all need a fix, Bossy seems to be spending her blogging time here now: http://www.babble.com/babble-voices/teen-beat-georgia-getz/
Meh says
May 4, 2013 at 12:20 amIs that mean she’s been blogging unfaithful to us, her esteemed council?
Dana says
May 4, 2013 at 4:44 pmNice of her to let us know she was leaving … not.
Meh says
May 4, 2013 at 8:08 pmDick move blogging elsewhere and telling no one Bossy.
Lynn says
May 5, 2013 at 6:31 pmCouncil…we don’t count anymore. It’s painfully obvious. I’m done.
L says
May 10, 2013 at 10:39 pmHope to hear from you soon. Will be checking back from time to time. Fingers crossed.
amy says
May 14, 2013 at 3:03 pmYep, she’s abandoned us.
Frimmy says
May 15, 2013 at 11:10 pmIf Bossy has a paying gig elsewhere she is most probably bound by a non-compete clause in a contract which means she is legally obligated not to post here. Don’t take it personally. If she had been able to tell you about it wouldn’t you have been happy for her? Wouldn’t you have followed her to her new home willingly? Does she seem like the kind of person who would willingly abandon you or is she the kind of person who would abide by her obligations and be optimistic that you will find her? Just my perspective.
BOSSY says
May 19, 2013 at 8:53 pmBossy hasn’t abandoned anyone — stay tuned. Please!
Meg @ Soup Is Not A Finger Food says
May 22, 2013 at 9:32 amI think Bossy was inspired to write this post after enduring a couple of days of corporate training of some kind or another.
PS, commenters just before me – give a sister a break. Bossy’s got a job now. It’s hard to work and blog. For real.
Jo C says
May 30, 2013 at 1:00 pmThanks, Mary K, for the link to Bossy’s other writing gig. Bossy, you’re worth the wait! You never cease to amuse me.
L says
June 12, 2013 at 12:43 pmHey Bossy,
Hope you are ok. You blogged and asked us to stick around. I decided to stick around. Hope to hear from you soon.