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Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky on March 4, 1877. His parents were former slaves. When Garrett was a child, he spent most of his time going to school and working on their family farm. His career started when he was at the age of 14, when he had to quit school, he moved up north to Cincinnati, Ohio to search for jobs. He began to work for a rich landowner, as a handyman. At age 18, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and worked as a repairman for sew machines. Then he became well known for his skills at repairing, which let him to many jobs in Cleveland. In 1907, he started his own shop for repairing and sewing machines, that expanded which started a tailoring shop. While straightening clothes in his tailoring shop with a type of liquid, he discovered that it can also straighten hair, so he turned this liquid into cream which made him start the hair refining company. Then Garrett Augustus Morgan invented the safety hood and smoke protector, after hearing about fire at a factory. In 1912, he was given a patent for the safety hood. He later sold this invention around the United States, but he had a White man take credit for the invention so people would buy this invention. It was a gas mask so it could help people breathe during fires. On July 15, 1916, several men was saved by the gas mask during an explosion in an underground tunnel. After hearing about this, many fire departments wanted to buy this invention. For this, he was awarded a gold Medal of Bravery by citizens of Cleveland. But he was not nominated for many medals due to his race. When the first American automobile was made, there were many accidents that occurred. After hearing about this, Garrett Augustus Morgan wanted to do something to reduce injuries in traffic, so he decided to create a "traffic signal" which can organize the cars and people. This "traffic signal" is a T shaped pole that had 3 signs: STOP, GO, and an all-directional stop position. There were use of traffic signals before Garrett's idea, the old one only had 2 signs, STOP and GO. It also had problems, sometimes the timing of the signal did not work properly, which caused confusion between cars and people. At night, some people would just ignore the sign. Garrett's traffic signal was much better than the one already in use, the all-directional stop position sign, this sign makes all the traffic stop in all directions before traveling was resumed. This made the people much safer when crossing the street, and the cars more organized. It was said that Garrett sold his invention to the General Electric Company for $40,000, but it was not recorded due to its large amount. The year that Garrett Augustus Morgan died, he was awarded a citation for his traffic signal by the U.S government. He was a great contribution to the United States, I believed that without his inventions, many people wouldn't be living right now at this time. His inventions saved so many lives, and helped so much people out. No matter what race he is, we should all treat him with respect, with what he has done for the United States, and how many lives were saved with his invention.

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Garret Augustus Morgan contributed many things to the United States, with his traffic signals and safety hood. Without the traffic signals, there would be many confusion on the streets with the cars and the people, they would not know when to go or stop. The traffic signal helps them organize things out. Before his invention, many accidents occurred, and many people had lost their lives. Without the traffic signal, I could not imagine how the streets will be like right now. I can be walking to school and I could see people get run over by cars. His other invention, the safety hood also saved many lives. The gas mask can help you survive during a fire, while you escape out of the place. Without it, people will be dead at half way through the exit. They would have trouble breathing. Without his inventions, many people wouldn't be alive right now, accidents would occur way more often. They are used in our everyday lives, this world will be crazy without the traffic signal and the safety hood.