{"id":6428,"date":"2026-08-05T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:44:50","slug":"first-traffic-light-was-installed-in-cleveland-ohio-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"First Traffic Light Was Installed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First traffic light in the country was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914<\/strong>. James Hoge received patent #1,251,666 for his \u201cMunicipal Traffic Control System.\u201d Four pairs of red and green lights were wired to a manually controlled system. Children could view the patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US1251666A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traffic Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First traffic light in the country was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. James Hoge received patent #1,251,666 for his \u201cMunicipal Traffic Control System.\u201d Four pairs of red and green lights were wired to a manually controlled system. Children could view the patent at: Traffic Light.<\/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":[979,5767,978,442,3061,977,3062],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-979","tag-august-5","tag-james-hoge","tag-ohio","tag-patent-1251666","tag-traffic-light","tag-municipal-traffic-control-system","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\/6428","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=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25200,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}