Garrett Morgan (1877-1963)

There is always someone trying to break the traffic light. Speed up or run across the street on amber before it turns red. I could imagine how chaotic the roads would have been if Garrett Morgan did not invent the Traffic light.

In 1923, the U.S. Patent Office grants Patent No. 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman Garrett Morgan for his three-position traffic signal.