Cats Eyes Road Inventor

Percy Shaw the Yorkshire inventor of the Cats Eye.

Cats eyes road inventor. Fascinating 1960s documentary on Yorkshire eccentric Percy Shaw - the inventor of Cats Eyes. The World of Whicker - The Cats Eyes Man. In 1934 he developed the reflective cats eye to help drivers follow the road in darkness or fog.

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Get premium high resolution news photos at Getty Images. Realising that driving at night was becoming a more common occurrence the inventor in Shaw decided that something needed to be done to make the roads safer at night. In 1934 he patented his invention patent No.

436290 and 457536 and on March 15 1935 founded Reflecting Roadstuds Limited in Halifax to. Now here was a safecheap and simple way of keeping motorists on the right side of the road. He patented the reflective road stud or cats eye in 1934 and set up a company to manufacture his invention in 1935.

Percy Shaw inventor of the cats eyes road safety device supervising the production of the component parts in his factory in Boothtown Halifax. The Cats Eye was invented in 1934 by Yorkshireman Percy Shaw and has no doubt saved thousands of lives on the roads over the years. The inventor called them cats eyes because thats where he got the idea from.

His inspiration came from how car headlights reflect off road signs. Percy Shaw inventor of the cats eyes road safety device outside his factory in Boothtown Halifax. When the device is driven over the rubber dome simply sinks down below the surface of the road.