The Black Inventor You’ve Never Heard Of

This is the Black inventor history books will never teach you about. Garrett Morgan was known as the “Black Edison”.

He invented the Morgan Hood, which became our modern day gas masks used during WWI, now used by firefighters, in research labs you name it. But Morgan didn’t stop there. He then went on to invent the three signal traffic light which he sold to General Electric for $40,000 in 1923 ($760K today).

What history won’t tell you is that no one would buy Morgan’s inventions for the lo