Morgan established the Natl. Safety Device Co. Morgan's other major invention, a traffic light , was important in that it used a third, cautionary signal between "stop" and "go.
Morgan married Madge Nelson in ; they were divorced in Inventor Entrepreneur. What inventions did Garrett Morgan make? Traffic light Gas mask. Who invented stop? The man who invented stop signs, one-way streets, never passed his driving test. What did Garrett Morgan parents do? Why did Garrett Morgan invented the hair straightener? In , Morgan accidentally discovered that the liquid could also straighten hair.
He made the liquid into a cream and launched the G. The inventor died on July 27, , in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother, Elizabeth Reed, was of Indian and African descent, and the daughter of a Baptist minister. His father, Sydney, a formerly enslaved person freed in , was the son of John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate colonel. Morgan's mixed-race heritage would play a part in his business dealings as an adult. When Morgan was in his mid-teens, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to look for work, and found it as a handyman to a wealthy landowner.
Although he only completed an elementary school education, Morgan was able to pay for more lessons from a private tutor. But jobs at several sewing-machine factories were to soon capture his imagination and determine his future.
Learning the inner workings of the machines and how to fix them, Morgan obtained a patent for an improved sewing machine and opened his own repair business. Morgan's business was a success, and it enabled him to marry a Bavarian woman named Mary Anne Hassek, and establish himself in Cleveland. He and his wife would have three sons during their marriage.
Following the momentum of his business success, Morgan's patented sewing machine would soon pave the way to his financial freedom, albeit in a rather unorthodox way: In , Morgan was working with sewing machines in his newly opened tailoring shop — a business he had opened with wife Mary, who had experience as a seamstress — when he encountered woolen fabric that had been scorched by a sewing-machine needle.
It was a common problem at the time since sewing-machine needles ran at such high speeds. In hopes of alleviating the problem, Morgan experimented with a chemical solution in an effort to reduce friction created by the needle and subsequently noticed that the hairs of the cloth were straighter.
After trying his solution to good effect on a neighboring dog's fur, Morgan finally tested the concoction on himself. The success of the solution led Morgan to form G. Morgan Refining Company, the first producers of hair refining cream. Morgan experimented with new products throughout his life, inventing hat and belt fasteners and a friction drive clutch.
His most significant invention, however, came in , when he developed the "safety hood," a precursor to the modern-day gas mask. Morgan's patent application referred to it as a "Breathing Device. Although Morgan tested and demonstrated the use of the safety hood over the next few years, its most critical test occurred on July 24, , during a tunnel explosion at the Cleveland Waterworks. The whole area was filled with noxious fumes and smoke, trapping workers in a tunnel under Lake Erie.
Aided by his Breathing Device, Morgan went into the tunnel and carried workers out on his back, saving a number of men from an underground death. Not much later, Morgan established a company to manufacture and sell the Breathing Device in response to numerous orders from fire and police departments and mining industries.
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