Garrett Augustus Morgan was born March 4th, 1877 in Claysville, Kentucky. ... We don’t expect the majority of the Hackaday demographic to know much about hair straighteners, ...

Maybe you don't know Garrett Morgan's name, but he dreamed up inventions that were the precursors to hair straighteners, gas masks, and traffic lights.

In 1906, Morgan started the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company to market the hair straightener he had invented, according to a second historical marker dedicated to him that was erected in 2003 by ...

Garrett Morgan has three main achievements, including creating the stoplight, a hair straightener, and the gas mask. Even Morgan’s granddaughter was in attendance.

The son of two former slaves, Garrett Morgan (1877-1963) ... Soon he was inventing other products, including a hair-straightener for African Americans. In 1916, ...

Of Seams and Straighteners Image via Wikipedia. Garrett Augustus Morgan was ... He turned the solution into a cream and established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company to sell his hair relaxer ...

In 1907, he opened a repair shop, followed by a garment shop that he started with his wife in 1909. He began designing machines and innovations, like a zigzag stitching device for manually-operating ...

In the early 1900s, Morgan established several businesses, including a sewing machine shop on W. 6th Street, a tailoring shop and a company to market a hair-straightening solution he discovered by ...

Garrett Morgan was born in Claysville, ... he inadvertently created a chemical hair straightener he dubbed the G.A. Morgan Refining Cream. ... and hair grower. Then, in 1920, Morgan switched gears.

Maybe if Garrett Augustus Morgan had not been at that intersection on that summer day, his own crossroads would have been different, his path altered. Skip to main content. You have ...