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 Garrett Augustus Morgan | |
| Born | March 4, 1877 |
| Died | August 27, 1963 (aged 86) |
| Other names | Big Chief Mason |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Inventor of a type of traffic signal and a respiratory protective hood |
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.
