At a young age, Garrett Morgan’s passion of figuring out how things worked led him to a successful career as an inventor and businessman. Saving lives was his major motivation when he developed his two most popular inventions: the gas mask and three-way traffic signal. His original inventions served as the framework for the gas masks and traffic signals in use for public safety today.
A portrait of Garrett A. Morgan. Undated. (Fotosearch/Getty Images).
