Even though we’re long past the invention of the car and the first appearance of traffic regulations, it’s interesting to know how it all began. To think that some 100-150 years ago, people considered ...
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 ...
Garrett Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Kentucky. His parents were Sydney Morgan and Elizabeth Reed, who were both formerly enslaved. Morgan left his family’s farm at the age of 14 and moved to ...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way for an emergency vehicle to automatically control traffic lights at an intersection," said an inventor, from St. Petersburg, ...
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