Black Fact = 1877 (March 4) – Garrett A. Morgan, inventor of the gas mask and traffic light, was born in Kentucky on this date in 1877.
With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan, born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877, began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine and traffic signal, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks. The inventor died on July 27, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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