{"id":599,"date":"2026-11-20T00:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-20T05:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:52:48","slug":"traffic-signal-was-patented-in-1923-by-garrett-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Signal Was Patented in 1923 by Garrett Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11196\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11196\" class=\"wp-image-11196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/traffic-light-204x300.png\" alt=\"Traff\" width=\"162\" height=\"238\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic Light Patent Drawing<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Traffic signal was patented in 1923 by Garrett Morgan<\/strong>. Experts are not sure if Morgan\u2019s traffic signal was actually used. Children can view the rest of his patent at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US1475024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traffic Signal Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic signal was patented in 1923 by Garrett Morgan. Experts are not sure if Morgan\u2019s traffic signal was actually used. Children can view the rest of his patent at: Traffic Signal Patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5486,3966,6033,3965],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5486","tag-garrett-morgan","tag-november-20","tag-traffic-signal","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21486,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/21486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}