WHO AM I.........And the game continues.

[wildrider]

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I'm not asleep. I'm resting my eyes.

 

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[rwsnc]

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His invention is hanging around every city...

 

[rwsnc]

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Good morning...

 

[rwsnc]

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Nope to all.... Speaking of doing volunteer work...I used to do volunteer work for the Red Cross as a Disaster caseworker, after I retired. As a matter of a fact I worked a flood in Roseville, northeast of Sacramento back in the mid '90s.

 

[Mental Granny]

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Guttenburg

 

[rwsnc]

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Guttenburg

If I was driving around a city and saw a printing press hanging around, I think I'd leave town in a hurry.

 

[rwsnc]

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Clue: I will say that everytime you see one of his inventions, you take notice.

 

[Mental Granny]

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Not the printing press one HAHA I'd run too no the one who invented billboards.

 

[rwsnc]

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Not the printing press one HAHA I'd run too no the one who invented billboards.

....oh...

 

[Mental Granny]

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Georges Claude ??

 

[rwsnc]

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Clue: I will say that everytime you see one of his inventions, you take notice.

.... Although, some people tend to ignore them.

 

[Mental Granny]

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Garrett Morgan

 

[imafishingnutt]

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Georges Claude ??

stop light

 

[imafishingnutt]

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Lester Wire did he was a street cop

 

[rwsnc]

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Yep... it's the stop light, but who invented it?

 

[imafishingnutt]

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The traffic light, also known as traffic signal, stop light, traffic lamp, stop-and-go lights, robot or semaphore, is a signaling device positioned at a road intersection, pedestrian crossing, or other location. Its purpose is to indicate, using a series of colors (Red - Amber - Green) specific movement to drive, ride or walk - - each assigned the right-of-way at a given moment, using a universal color code (and a precise sequence, for those that are color blind).

 

[rwsnc]

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Garrett Morgan

Here it is.. I must have been posting something when this came in.

Congratulations...

TRAFFIC SIGNAL
Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions). Morgan used his gas mask (patent No. 1,090,936, 1914) to rescue miners who were trapped underground in a noxious mine. Soon after, Morgan was asked to produce gas masks for the US Army.

 

[imafishingnutt]

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Garrett Morgan

Here it is.. I must have been posting something when this came in.

Congratulations...

TRAFFIC SIGNAL
Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions). Morgan used his gas mask (patent No. 1,090,936, 1914) to rescue miners who were trapped underground in a noxious mine. Soon after, Morgan was asked to produce gas masks for the US Army.

um i dont think thats right.

 

[imafishingnutt]

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Who Invented the Traffic Light?
William Potts of Detroit
© John Crandall

Apr 5, 2007

Despite widespread credit to Garret Morgan for a 1923 patent, traffic lights very closely resembling modern lights were in use in Detroit three years earlier.
The first historically recorded traffic light was installed at a busy intersection outside of Parliament in London in 1868. This was before all but the earliest steam automobiles, and was meant mainly for horse and wagon traffic. It only had two colors, red for stop, and green for proceed with caution. It was powered by gaslight gas, and had to be manually switched from green to red. After a little over a month in operation this traffic light exploded and caused some injuries to its operator. After that, traffic light inventors seem to have taken a long break until the 20th century. Henry Ford’s “a car in every driveway” made new traffic control almost inevitable.

Inventors set about trying to design new traffic lights, and there were U.S. Patents issued in 1918 and 1919 to two different inventors. One to James Hoge of Cleveland, Ohio who invented a two color red green electric traffic light. Others were also experimenting with adapting railway signals to road use, but William Potts, a policeman from Detroit, deserves the credit for inventing the modern three color traffic light. He rigged it from parts from three colors of railroad lights and some wire and switches. It began replacing policemen directing traffic at the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in 1920. It could control traffic from four directions, and was very successful. Within a year from that first day Detroit had over a dozen traffic lights in operation. Potts does not seem to have patented his invention, and a 1923 patent to Garret Morgan was soon purchased by General Electric (GE) which then began building and marketing traffic lights for the national market. Morgan’s design did not significantly effect the evolution of the traffic light, but GE used his patent as justification to try and corner the market on traffic light sales.

Although interconnection of lights goes back to some early two color hand switched systems, interconnection, remote control, and eventually automation are the next important developments in traffic light technology. Traffic lights are just one more transportation technology which makes the world run more smoothly that is often taken for granted and rarely noticed (except at long lights where they may be noticed with irritation). Arrow turn signal lights became important as traffic volumes increased and controlling flow became a more complex problem. Despite widespread credit to Garret Morgan, William Potts appears to be the actual inventor of the traffic light.

 

[rwsnc]

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Garrett Morgan

Here it is.. I must have been posting something when this came in.

Congratulations...

TRAFFIC SIGNAL
Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions). Morgan used his gas mask (patent No. 1,090,936, 1914) to rescue miners who were trapped underground in a noxious mine. Soon after, Morgan was asked to produce gas masks for the US Army.

um i dont think thats right.

I'd send you a link to my source, but I want to use the source for more "Guess Whos" later.

You might be correct, though. He got credit for the "patent". Did someone else invent it?