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Garrett Morgan

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Profession
Inventor
Died
Aug 27, 1963
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
KY
About
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.
Family
He married his second wife, Mary Anne Hassek, in 1908 and had three children.

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