Simple Machines:African American Inventors

Name: Garrett A. Morgan

   Birth place:Paris,Kentucky Birth  date: March 4,1877                                                                               

  Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr.  was an African American inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks), credited with having a patent for a type of  traffic signal. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in which he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes. He is credited as the first African-American in Cleveland to own an automobile.