Garrett Morgan
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. He is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland, Ohio, to own an automobile.
References
Other websites
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Waterworks Disasters
Images from Morgan' s patents
1877 births
1963 deaths
American inventors
Businesspeople from Kentucky