Article: Ten Plus One Great Early Inventors
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Ten Plus One Great Early Inventors
These randomly chosen ?Ten Plus One!? individuals revolutionized America and the world with their creativity and ideas. Besides either creating or improving upon an existing invention, can you guess what else they have in common?
1. Garrett Morgan invented The Morgan Traffic Signal. Patented in 1922, it was a forerunner of our current traffic light system. The patent diagram shows a T-shaped pole with three signs: Stop, Go and ALL stop. When the ALL stop sign was up all traffic stopped. Then pedestrians could walk across the street safely. Morgan died in 1963.
2. George Washington Carver , best known for his many uses for the peanut, also introduced crop rotation to the south.
3. Dr. Charles Drew devised a system or the long term preservation of...
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