This slideshare takes you through the history of windshields and its technological emergence for providing better safety.

1. Windshield Experts
History of Windshields

2. Windshields Taken For Granted
Imagine cars without windshields. Difficult isn’t it? Then don’t take it for granted.
1. It’s one of the most significant safety inventions in the automobile history is safety glass.
2. A product that allows windshield to shatter during collisions in such a way that the
overall form of the windshield is maintained preventing injuries.

3. Invention by Accident
• Edouard Benedictus made the present
day windshield was invented.
• Most of the inventions in history were
made by accidents.
• The present car windshields were also
invented by accident.
Did You Know!

4. Danger Danger!
• As more and more cars took to the roads, a rise in accidents was inevitable.
• It was not uncommon for the driver at a minimum to be injured by flying shards of glass
or, far worse, lose his life after going headfirst through the windshield.

5. Here comes Mr. Ford
• Ford was convinced it was time to make car windshields safer and decided to produce
improved glass.
• Ford manufactured the glass it needed. In late 1919 Ford began using laminated glass,
over the next decade directing its use in all Ford cars.

6. • Beginning in 1966 cars came equipped with improved laminated windshields that could
withstand nearly three times the impact of earlier versions.
Make Way for Stronger Windshields

7. In the 60s and 70s Federal Motor Vehicle Safety standards were set for:
• strength and clarity of laminated windshields (FMVSS 205);
• windshield retention strength during accidents (FMVSS 212);
• roof rigidity in rollover accidents (FMVSS 216);
• limits on windshield penetration (FMVSS 219).
Setting Standards

8. • Windshields are larger and often more raked.
• Some provide increased visibility with a windshield that extends up into the roof above
the driver or one that wraps into the side of the car.
• Modern windshields can filter 95-99% of UV rays.
All Eyes Here!

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