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	Garrett A. Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garrett A. Morgan applied for a U.S. patent for his own design for a traffic signal in 1922, and the patent was granted on November 20, 1923.
		Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877, Paris, Kentucky- August 27, 1963, Cleveland, Ohio) was an African American inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood, invented a hair-straightening preparation and patented a type of traffic signal.
		Morgan was a prominent member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garrett_A._Morgan (859 words)

	Town Hall, Garrett A. Morgan
		Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1877, the son of former slaves.
		Morgan witnessed a traffic crash between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage.
		Morgan was an American inventor in the early 1900's.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /kids/townhall/morgan/morgan2.html (423 words)

	Garrett Morgan
		Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris Kentucky to former slaves.
		Morgan's Safety Hood, now known as the "Gas Mask", was used by the United States government to save the lives of thousands of soldiers exposed to poisonous gases during World War I. Morgan was recognized throughout his life for developing, manufacturing and patenting many other inventions, including a zig-zag stitching attachment for sewing machines.
		Morgan was frequently invited to demonstrate his life-saving inventions across the United States, and he was honored by many of the most powerful and influential men of his day, including J.P Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
	www.clevelandmemory.org /blackhistory/profiles/morgan (576 words)

	The Twofold Genius of Garrett Morgan
		Morgan was an African-American inventor who invented two very different and important things: the gas mask and the traffic signal.
		Morgan received a patent for his device in 1923 and eventually sold it to General Electric.
		thing that Morgan noticed early in the 20th Century was that people who fought fires and had other reasons to go into tunnels filled with smoke and fumes had no means of protecting themselves from breathing all that bad air.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/garrettmorgan.htm (658 words)

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		Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877.
		Morgan was so successful that he bought a new home in his first year and moved his mother to Cleveland.
		Morgan was always concerned with the safety and well-being of citezens.
	www.manatee.k12.fl.us /sites/middleschool/johnson/Black/Garrett.htm (1110 words)

	Who is Garrett A. Morgan 1877-1963?
		Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Kentucky.
		Morgan and his brother were asked to assist in the rescue mission.
		Morgan did not let prejudice against him stop his efforts to invent devices to make the world a safer place.
	ctct.essortment.com /augustusgarrett_ols.htm (533 words)

	xlhome7
		Garrett A. Morgan (1875-1963), inventor; born in Paris, Tenn. Morgan developed his first invention, a belt fastener for sewing machines, in 1901, and he sold it for $150.
		In 1923, Morgan developed an automatic stop sign to aid the movement of traffic, selling the rights to this invention to General Electric for $40,000.
	www.users.fast.net /~blc/xlhome7.htm (68 words)

	LIBERTY: Garrett Morgan: Man of Many Inventions
		Garrett Morgan was born on a farm in Paris, Kentucky, one of 11 children.
		Morgan’s generation was also part of a ground-breaking change in transportation--the introduction of the automobile into a horse and buggy world.
		Morgan also served as the treasurer of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men which eventually merged with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and ran as a candidate for Cleveland's City Council.
	www.wnba.com /liberty/news/morgan_030212.html (385 words)

	Garrett Augustus Morgan: American Inventor - EnchantedLearning.com
		Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877- August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman.
		Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, and was the son of former slaves (and the 7th of their 11 children).
		Morgan patented a traffic signal on November 20, 1923 (U.S. patent No. 1,475,024, issued in 1923)- this was the first traffic signal patented, but not the first invented.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/page/m/morgan.shtml (419 words)

	Garrett Morgan
		Garrett Morgan was born on March 4, 1877 in Paris, Kentucky the seventh of 11 children born to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan.
		Morgan intended the device to be used "to provide a portable attachment which will enable a fireman to enter a house filled with thick suffocating gases and smoke and to breathe freely for some time therein, and thereby enable him to perform his duties of saving life and valuables without danger to himself from suffocation.
		At that point, Morgan was honored by many influential people around him, including such tycoons as John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan (after whom he named one of his sons.) Although his successes had brought him status and acclaim, Morgan never forgot that his fellow Blacks still suffered injustices and difficulties.
	www.blackinventor.com /pages/garrettmorgan.html (1073 words)

	Science Museum The Inventions of Garrett Morgan The traffic signal
		Morgan's traffic signal:The signal invented by Garrett Morgan to control traffic movement at crossroads, and patented in 1923.
		Morgan thought that accidents were often caused by impatient drivers who started as soon as the go signal was shown and before traffic going in the other direction had passed.
		Morgan patented his invention in 1923 and then sold the rights to the General Electric Corporation for $40,000.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/garret-morgan/page4.asp (278 words)

	Garrett Morgan, LLS4 - MSAD50
		Garrett Morgan was born on a farm in Paris, Kentucky, in 1877.
		Garrett Morgan invents the stop light for a lot of people all around the world.
		Garrett Morgan got a patent for his invention on February, 27, 1923.
	www.msad50.org /lls/invent/gmorgan.html (141 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Garrett Morgan
		Morgan, Garrett (1875-1963), American inventor, whose two most important inventions were the three-way automatic traffic stop light and the gas mask...
		Search for books about your topic, "Garrett Morgan"
		Morgan Horse, breed of horse developed in the U.S. in the early 19th century.
	encarta.msn.com /Garrett_Morgan.html (128 words)

	Garrett Morgan
		After the rescue, Morgan's company was deluged with requests from fire departments around the country who wanted to purchase the new masks.
		Morgan received his United States patent on November 20, 1923 and he also patented his invention in Great Britain and Canada.
		On July 25, 1916, Morgan was called to a rescue operation after an explosion in an underground tunnel under Lake Erie.
	coestudents.valdosta.edu /irock110/morgan.htm (453 words)

	morgan.htm
		Garrett A. Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Kentucky.
		On November 20, 1923, Garrett Morgan received a patent for his traffic signal.
		There were many different type of traffic signals created during this time, but not one of them did what Garrett Morgan's first automatic traffic signal acomplished.
	www.3dpublishing.com /learningcenter/morgan.htm (194 words)

	Garrett Morgan's inventions saved lives
		"Garrett Morgan is definitely one of the best-known local inventors, because two of his best-known inventions are such a part of our lives," said Rini Paiva, a curator at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron who researched a temporary exhibit on Northeast Ohio inventors.
		Garrett A. Morgan believed in his charcoal-filtered breathing mask, but you could understand others who didn't.
		After the gas mask, which was later used in World War I, Morgan invented the precursor to the modern traffic light, incorporating a caution signal between stop and go.
	clevessf.dev.advance.net /yearbook/millennium/invent/x29gmorg.html (325 words)

	Who Made America? Innovators Garrett Augustus Morgan
		Garrett Morgan's safety hood saved the lives of countless firefighters and others.
		Morgan died in 1963, vindicated as a hero of the Lake Erie rescue and restored to his place in history.
		Morgan's hood got great press in 1916, when he used it to save workers in a collapsed tunnel under Lake Erie.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/morgan_hi.html (460 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Morgan and his crew went into the tunnel again and again, pulling suffocating workers and rescuers to safety.
		In 1914, Morgan obtained a patent for his safety hood — a breathing device consisting of a canvas hood placed over the head.
		Morgan, his brother and two volunteers put on the hoods and went in.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/morgan.html (281 words)

	STB Education Links
		Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program was initiated by Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater while he was head of the Federal Highway Administration.
		The Garrett Morgan Program focuses on education as the most important tool for achieving progress for both individuals and the larger community.
		Morgan’s contributions are clear evidence that everyone benefits when doors of opportunities are open to all.
	www.stb.dot.gov /Education.htm (263 words)

	Public Roads: The Garrett A. Morgan Program: shaping the futu... @ HighBeam Research
		The Ohio city was the home of Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963), a man who overcame a background of poverty and lack of formal education to forge a long and distinguished business career that included the development of a pioneering traffic-control device.
		Judith Johnson said key 1997 and 1998 FHWA outreach activities include presentations on the Garrett A. Morgan Program at the annual meetings of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
		Morgan also developed a number of other inventions, including a gas mask that was later refined for use by U.S. soldiers during World War I. Slater has often said that Morgan is his hero, a man whose lifetime achievement is a model of dedication to public service, safety, and technological innovation.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20514453&refid=ip_almanac_hf (1699 words)

	Hathaway Brown School - Garrett A. Morgan Biography
		Garrett Augustus Morgan was an African-American inventor and businessman.
		Garrett Morgan and his wife, Mary Hasek, had three children.
		Morgan also invented a safety helmet and gas mask which was used during World War I to protect soldiers from poisonous gas fumes.
	www.hb.edu /school/primary/resources/Early_Cleveland/morgan.htm (296 words)

	Did Garrett Morgan REALLY invent the traffic light?
		Garrett Morgan's 1922 invention was by no means the first traffic signal to use a third signal phase in addition to the usual stop and go.
		In regard to equally erroneous claims that Garrett Morgan invented the first smoke mask or gas mask in 1914, or that it became the gas mask used by U.S. soldiers in World War I, see The Invention of the Gas Mask and the references therein.
		Technologically, the Morgan device was more dead end than prototype: its crank-driven design did not lend itself to the automation and interconnection that was already happening with the fully electrical signals of the same era.
	www33.brinkster.com /iiiii/trfclt (1953 words)

	Garrett A. Morgan
		Garrett Morgan was born in Paris,____________ in 1877.
		Garrett Morgan also invented a gas mask on October 13, 1914
		Garrett Morgan patented his traffic signal on November 20, 1923
	www.3dpublishing.com /learningcenter/morganq.htm (111 words)

	Garrett Morgan
		Garrett Morgan changed all that with his invention of the traffic light.
		They were Garrett A. Morgan and his brother,
		Garrett had invented this “gas inhalator” a huge cloth mask with a tube reaching to the bottom.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0111766/garrettmorgan.html (193 words)

	Garett Morgan
		She and Sidney had eleven children, Garrett Morgan was the seventh
		Above Photographs: Portrait of Garrett Morgan circa 1955, and Mr.
		Morgan died on July 27, 1963 in Cleveland and was buried in the Lake View Cemetery.
	www.kytales.com /gmorgan/gmorgan.html (301 words)

	No. 1624: Garrett Morgan
		Morgan's mother was a freed slave; and, since his birth in 1877, American racism had steadily worsened.
		Morgan did what he had to do in the worst of times.
		In his late years, Morgan was highly honored for his many contributions.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1624.htm (562 words)

	ABC News: Stoplights Have Long Evolution
		For Garrett Morgan, a black American born of former slaves, the idea sprung from tragedy.
		Morgan, a successful businessman who had already invented the first version of the gas mask, set to work on a signal that could offer some order on Cleveland's increasingly chaotic and dangerous roads.
		While driving around the streets of Cleveland, Morgan witnessed a horrible traffic accident when a car collided with a horse and carriage.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/Traffic/story?id=318418&page=1 (368 words)

	Garrett Morgan
		An inventor that lived from 1877 to 1963, Garrett Morgan's name is widely unknown in American society.
		Morgan and the others used his "safety helmets" to rescue six unconscious workers who would have died.
		In 1923, Morgan also patented the three color electric traffic signal, which is not only instandard use in America, but throughout the world.
	www.suite101.com /topic_page.cfm/10995/3209 (157 words)

	Lemelson Center’s Invention at Play: Inventors’ Stories
		Garrett Morgan’s curiosity and imagination drove him to invent a range of devices that improved daily life.
		As a teenager with a sixth-grade education, Morgan worked as a handyman and developed a passion for fixing machines.
		When he could afford to, he hired a tutor so he could continue his education.
	www.inventionatplay.org /inventors_morg.html (68 words)

	Naugebauer (TX19) :: Press Release :: Neugebauer Offers Amendment to Create Garrett Morgan Technology and Transportation Education Program
		Garrett Morgan was an African-American inventor and publisher.
		Neugebauer secured support for his amendment creating the Garrett Morgan Technology and Transportation Program.
		H.R. 3551 is designed to create a more relevant research and development program and improve the quality of university programs related to transportation.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/tx19_neugebauer/Morgan2_4.html (258 words)

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