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Garrett Morgan
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 Garrett Augustus Morgan
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| Born
| (
1877-03-04
)
March 4, 1877
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| Died
| August 27, 1963
(1963-08-27)
(aged 86)
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| Other names
| Big Chief Mason
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| Occupation(s)
| Inventor, Entrepreneur
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| Known for
| Inventor of a type of
traffic signal
and a
respiratory protective hood
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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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