Intrigued, he tried it on a neighbor's dog, and when it straightened the hair on the dog's coat, Morgan finally tried the new solution on his own hair. 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.
Fire fighters came to rely upon the gas mask in rescue attempts, and the invention helped save thousands from chlorine gas and other noxious fumes during World War I. Next, Morgan created the three-way traffic signal, a device that saves lives to this day. Patent Office grants Patent No. Morgan, the child of two formerly enslaved people, was born in Kentucky in When he was just 14 years old, he moved north to Ohio to look for a job. First he worked as a handyman in Cincinnati; next he moved to Cleveland, where he worked as a sewing-machine repairman.
In , he opened his own repair shop, and in he added a garment shop to his operation. The business was an enormous success, and by Morgan had made enough money to start a newspaper, the Cleveland Call , which became one of the most important Black newspapers in the nation. There were manually operated traffic signals where major streets crossed one another, but they were not all that effective: Because they switched back and forth between Stop and Go with no interval in between, drivers had no time to react when the command changed.
This led to many collisions between vehicles that both had the right of way when they entered the intersection. The signal Morgan patented was a T-shaped pole with three settings. Morgan Hair Refining Co. This company soon offered a complete line of hair-care products.
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
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