Cats Eyes Road Inventor. ', however, the entrepreneur has no plans to treat himself with his new fortune. The motorway cat's eye is a reflective road stud used for road markings and the first series of raised pavement markers are designed by percy shaw.
Suddenly a pair of bright cat’s eyes stared at him in his headlights. Inventor of ‘cats’ eyes’ speaker: Percy realised that reflectors in the road could guide drivers at night, whatever the weather.
In 1947, british labor junior transport minister jim callaghan introduced cat's eyes on british roads.
Enabling vehicles to travel in the dark, the fog and during the blackout of world war ii, whilst helping to save numerous lives on the uk's roads, the invention of the cat's eye is credited to percy shaw. But most of all, it’s a story about how a chance encounter with a cat led to one of the most important road safety innovations ever seen. Cat's eyes were invented by halifax man percy shaw 70 years ago, after he was inspired by the sight of his car headlamps reflected in the eyes of a cat. The name catseye is their trademark.
