Garrett A. Morgan is emerging as ... The son of former slaves, Morgan conceived and patented the three-signal traffic control in 1923, after he reportedly witnessed a tragic automobile accident ...

“Today, we know it as the caution light or yellow light ... the US government issued Garrett Morgan a citation for his improved traffic signal. In 2005, he was inducted into the National ...

A replica of Garrett Morgan’s three-way traffic signal invention from 1923 on display at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. Garrett Morgan would go on to invent a safety hood ...

On Nov. 20, 2023, it will be exactly 100 years ago to the very day that Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. received a patent for the precursor to today’s traffic light. It was on Nov. 20, 1923 that the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — He's the mind behind so many parts of every day life. Inventor and entrepreneur Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877 to freed slaves. When he finished ...

The answer leads right back to Cleveland and the legacy of Garrett A. Morgan. Morgan, the first Black man in Cleveland to own a car, saw firsthand the dangers of early traffic intersections.

During a recent rededication ceremony honoring the centennial of the three-signal traffic light, five generations of Garrett A. Morgan’s family, along with city officials, gathered at the ...

A replica of Garrett Morgan’s three-way traffic signal invention from 1923 on display at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. Garrett Morgan would go on to invent a safety hood, a ...