Garrett Morgan - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garrett Morgan | |
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![]() Garrett Augustus Morgan | |
Born | |
Died | August 27, 1963 | (aged 86)
Other names | Big Chief Mason |
Occupation(s) | Inventor, Entrepreneur |
Known for | Inventor of a type of traffic signal and a respiratory protective hood |
Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an African-American inventor and community leader.
He is known for his inventions which included a type of protective respiratory hood (or gas mask), a traffic signal, and a hair-straightening chemical. He is also known for a heroic rescue in 1916 in which he and three others used the safety hood device he'd developed to save workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, fifty feet beneath Lake Erie.[1] He is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland, Ohio, to own an automobile.
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[change | change source] Media related to Garrett Morgan at Wikimedia Commons
- The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Waterworks Disasters Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Images from Morgan's patents
- Garrett A. Morgan at Find a Grave