Person · 1877–1963
Garrett Morgan
The self-taught inventor of an early traffic signal and a life-saving smoke hood.
An inventor of [[black-science]].
The son of formerly enslaved parents, Garrett Morgan built a successful business and a string of inventions, including a breathing device that he used to rescue trapped workers in a 1916 tunnel explosion and a three-position traffic signal he patented in 1923.
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Inventor of an early three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood that was a forerunner of the gas mask; built his career in Cleveland, Ohio.