The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1624: Garrett Morgan
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1624: Garrett Morgan

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 4, 20263 min

Episode: 1624 Garrett A. Morgan: Black American inventor. Today, thoughts about traffic lights, gas masks, and hair straighteners.

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This programming is sponsored by Downtown Houston. This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today, thoughts about traffic lights, gas masks,

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and hair straighteners. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run

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and the people whose ingenuity created them. In 1914, a New Orleans paper reported an advertising demonstration. First an inky thick smoke had been created. Then an Indian assistant, Big Chief Mason, had donned the new Morgan's safety hood

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