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Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an African American, inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks), credited with being the inventor of a type of traffic signal, and invented a hair-straightening preparation. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in which he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes. He is credited as the first African-American in Cleveland to own an automobile.

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Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an American inventor and community leader. He was from Cleveland, Ohio, and appears to have applied his intelligence and creativity to find solutions to ordinary problems.

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for inventing the traffic light and the gas mask and some other hiarproducts and stufff

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