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Did the third brake light on us automobiles get named after James Watt?
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∙ 14y ago
No, according to Wikipedia's history of lights on vehicles, the third rear brake light was named a Liddy Light, after Elizabeth Dole who was Secretary of Transportation at the time. But since no one seems to use that term, it's hard to say that it was really named anything that stuck.
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