ZIMBABWE KID - Garrett A. Morgan, Sr, revolutionary Black inventor & businessman, invented the Gas Mask in 1912 & the three-position Traffic Signal in 1923. He created the Black newspaper, the Cleveland
![Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights - Scientific American Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights - Scientific American](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/98D31FC7-F6CF-4348-AFD100282E1A5CDC_source.jpg)
Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights - Scientific American
![Garrett A. Morgan, Cleveland's 'Black Edison,' created today's traffic light and gas mask: Black History Month's Untold Stories - cleveland.com Garrett A. Morgan, Cleveland's 'Black Edison,' created today's traffic light and gas mask: Black History Month's Untold Stories - cleveland.com](https://www.cleveland.com/resizer/Wps6a0RWU6kzat-MHHqpxMd4IKQ=/1280x0/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/HLYUO7XXDZAAFHTIJZOTLF4U4U.jpeg)
Garrett A. Morgan, Cleveland's 'Black Edison,' created today's traffic light and gas mask: Black History Month's Untold Stories - cleveland.com
U.S. Embassy Zambia - Did you know? Garret Morgan invented the first gas mask? He called it a Safety Hood and patented it as a Breathing Device, but the world came to
![To Protect Allied WWI Soldiers, This Researcher Tested an Early Gas Mask on Himself | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine To Protect Allied WWI Soldiers, This Researcher Tested an Early Gas Mask on Himself | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/PCpOImqGvBP5OnVt8QGDDoEET3U=/fit-in/1600x0/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/f9/c8/f9c8f35e-c24a-46ce-b7be-ff154db7e589/haldane_in_his_laboratory_at_oxford_1911crop.jpg)