Lester Wire
(1887-1958)
American inventor of the electric traffic light
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Lester Farnsworth Wire (September 3, 1887 – April 14, 1958) was credited with the invention of the electric traffic light in 1912 in Salt Lake City. Wire worked as a detective for the Salt Lake City police force. The original traffic light, based on a semaphore system, had been invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight but had not been a success.
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3 September 1887 Salt Lake City, Utah
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| Died |
14 April 1958 (aged 70)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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