Garrett Morgan

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Garrett Morgan (born March 4, 1877) is famous for being . He currently resides in KY. African American inventor of the three-position traffic signal and one of the first gas masks, which he called a Safety Hood. He made a heroic rescue in 1916 when he and three others used his safety hood device to save workers trapped in a water intake tunnel being dug under Lake Erie after a natural gas explosion and fire.

Garrett Morgan is a Pisces and was born in The Year of the Ox

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Garrett Morgan was born in KY on Sunday, March 4, 1877 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 147 years old and is a Pisces. Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor and community leader. He worked on the development of a chemical for hair-straightening. He was the subject of a newspaper expose in Cleveland, Ohio, for a heroic rescue in 1916 of workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, 50 ft (15 m) beneath Lake Erie. He performed his rescue using a hood fashioned to protect his eyes from smoke and featuring a series of air tubes that hung near the ground to draw clean air beneath the rising smoke. By using this simple principle of heat, it allowed Morgan to lengthen his ability to endure the inhospitable conditions of a smoke-filled room. Morgan is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland to own an automobile. He was the first African American living in Cleveland, Ohio to buy and own an automobile.

He hired his own tutor with the wages he earned as a handyman for a rich Cincinnati landowner. Garrett Morgan is a member of Richest Celebrities and s.