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Garrett Morgan was a black American inventor of early 20th century who accidentally discovered the solution to straighten curly hair, which became the first hair straightening lotion. He also invented the safety hood, the first three-way traffic signal, a woman’s hat fastener, an electric curling comb and a pellet for extinguishing cigarettes.
