Thanks to George F. Kirchoff, a 1955 engineering physics graduate, we can drive easy. Kirchoff worked for 35 years — with Thiokol Inc., Morton International and Autoliy Inc. — to develop a successful airbag, and he has the patents to show for it. He didn’t invent the airbag, per se, but he did perfect it, working long and hard through hundreds of trials to create a bag of gases that would explode, contained, in 35 milliseconds. At the same time, it had to keep us safe. Read the full story about Kirchoff from the Mobile Press-Register online at eng.auburn.edu/airbag