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Originally Posted by dougeetx
Your "white man cars" wouldn't go that far if it wasn't for the Black man that invented the stop light.
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Another black invention myth.
In early 1922, African-American inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan designed a cross-shaped traffic signal, for which he submitted a patent application on February 27 of that year. The patent ? which was not even among the first 50 traffic signal patents issued in the United States ? was granted on November 20, 1923. For whatever reason, numerous writers and public figures have credited Morgan with inventing any or all of the following:
world's first traffic signal
first traffic signal to earn a patent
first automatic traffic signal
first traffic signal with a third "all-directional stop" phase
first signal with a yellow light phase
the basis for modern traffic signal systems
None of these claims are even remotely true, as rest of this page shows.
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/trfclt/