What is Garrett Morgan?
{{Infobox person | name = Garrett Morgan | image = Morgan5.jpg | caption = Garrett Augustus Morgan | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1877|3|4}} | birth_place = [[Claysville, Kentucky]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1963|8|27|1877|3|4}} | death_place = [[Cleveland, Ohio]] | other_names = Big Chief Mason | known_for = Inventor of a type of [[traffic signal]] and a [[gas mask|respiratory protective hood]] | occupation = Inventor, Entrepreneur }} '''Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr.''' (March 4, 1877 &ndash; July 27, 1963) was an [[African-American people|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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19160725&id=5ZMLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2186,4172923|title=The Evening Independent - Google News Archive Search}}</ref> He is also credited as the first African American in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], to own an automobile. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WTD The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Waterworks Disasters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024174140/http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WTD |date=2014-10-24 }} *[https://www.thoughtco.com/patent-drawings-of-garrett-augustus-morgan-1992287 Images from Morgan's patents] *{{Find a Grave|1311|name=Garrett A. Morgan}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Garrett}} [[Category:1877 births]] [[Category:1963 deaths]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Kentucky]] {{us-bio-stub}}