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Garrett Morgan

1877 - 1963

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Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a type of three-way traffic light, and a protective 'smoke hood' notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garrett Morgan has received more than 1,987,711 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Garrett Morgan is the 159th most popular inventor (up from 180th in 2019), the 2,314th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,578th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Garrett Morgan ranks 159 out of 426. Before him are Alfred Vail, Gideon Sundback, Peter Henlein, Heinrich Göbel, Fausto Veranzio, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. After him are William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Royal Rife, Angelo Moriondo, and Lucien Olivier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Garrett Morgan ranks 51. Before him are Edmund Landau, Petar Kočić, Charles Rolls, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Herbert Pitman. After him are Edmond Locard, Vladimir Minorsky, Wilhelm Adam, Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, and Édouard Herzen. Among people deceased in 1963, Garrett Morgan ranks 57. Before him are Fritz Reiner, Alexander Marinesko, Camille Chautemps, Gustaf Gründgens, Rikidōzan, and Dinah Washington. After him are Georg Lindemann, Clifford Odets, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Jacobus Oud, and Ngô Đình Nhu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garrett Morgan ranks 2,314 out of 20,380. Before him are George Gallup (1901), Steve McCurry (1950), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Henry Silva (1928), Robert Plutchik (1927), and Tonya Harding (1970). After him are Peter Graves (1926), Shannen Doherty (1971), Leland Stanford (1824), Emma Stone (1988), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), and Marshall Sahlins (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Garrett Morgan ranks 40. Before him are Robert Moog (1934), Sequoyah (1770), Elias Howe (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Bob Kahn (1938), and Alfred Vail (1807). After him are Royal Rife (1888), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), and Christopher Latham Sholes (1819).

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