Cats Eyes Road Inventor

On a foggy Yorkshire night 85 years ago the shine of a cats eyes was his Eureka moment Percy Shaw inventor of the cats eye road safety device outside his factory in Boothtown Halifax.

Cats eyes road inventor. The inventor called them cats eyes because thats where he got the idea from. Percy Shaw OBE was an English inventor and businessman. The History of Cats Eyes.

Percy Shaw the Yorkshire inventor of the Cats Eye. Photos in the public domain. In 1934 he developed the reflective cats eye to help drivers follow the road in darkness or fog.

Glenda Shaw Glenda Shaw shared the story of Percy Shaw inventor of the reflecting road studs we call Cats Eyes with Hebden Bridge Local History Society and showed how he became a Yorkshire icon. Percy Shaw inventor of the cats eyes road safety device supervising the production of the component parts in his factory in Boothtown Halifax. The name cats eye comes from Shaws inspiration for the device.

Percy Shaw OBE 15 April 1890 1 September 1976 was an English inventor and businessman. Both are non-negotiably creepy. Wiki Percy_Shaw.

A clever little feature of cats eyes is a fixed rubber wiper that cleans the surface of the reflectors every time the rubber casing dips down. Percy Shaw was a British businessman and inventor. Cats Eyes In The Future.

The beads depressed and brushed against their moulded housing and cleaned too by rainwater squeezed out at the same time as traffic ran over the inserts placed into the road surface was ingenious and made a fortune for Shaw. Natures inventiveness often inspires human innovation as in the well-known case of hook-and-loop fasteners. His inspiration came from how car headlights reflect off road signs.