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Garrett A. Morgan and the breathing-device patent

Morgan's 1914 breathing-device patent moves Backlog 3 into public-safety technology while separating the patent row from later rescue and traffic-signal memory.

Why this belongs on CultureUp

Morgan is a public-record memory story.

Morgan belongs here because public safety and breathing-device technology are civic infrastructure memory.

Backlog priority 8 / chronology not finalStatus: source_reviewedSource grade: B+

Patent: 1113675: Breathing Device
Issue date: 1914-10-13
Place: Cleveland, Ohio
Record strength: Medium-high patent-record strength for the breathing-device row; later public-safety narratives need separate source trails.
Identity evidence: Publishable as a patent-record profile with careful separation from later Morgan memory.
Backlog priority: 8 / not chronological rank
Chronology caution: Backlog priority 8 is not chronological rank.
Identity caution: Do not infer every later Morgan claim from this patent row.
Why this record matters: The record ties Black technical memory to public safety, emergency work, and protective equipment.

What the public record supports

U.S. Patent No. 1113675, issued October 13, 1914.
Breathing-device invention category.
Backlog public-safety anchor.

What remains open

Later Morgan public memory needs separate source work.
Commercialization and rescue-use claims need careful sourcing.

Article profile

Read the person, place, invention, and record separately.

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The patent record

Google Patents mirrors U.S. Patent No. 1113675 for a breathing device issued October 13, 1914.

The person in the record

The profile starts with the patent row and leaves later biography for sourced expansion.

Place attached to the claim

Cleveland anchors the public-safety technology row.

The invention

The invention belongs to breathing devices and protective public-safety equipment.

Business, labor, and use

The patent supports inventorship but not all manufacture, sales, rescue use, or public adoption.

What the record cannot prove

The patent cannot prove all later Morgan stories, rescue effects, traffic-signal claims, or business outcomes.

Patent records

Grant trail

Grant rank and unique-holder rank are shown separately so repeat patentees do not distort the chronological sequence.

Backlog priority 8Not chronological rankutility patentmedium high

1113675: Breathing Device

Garrett A. Morgan / 1914-10-13

Backlog priority row, not a chronological rank. Morgan's public-safety profile starts here with the breathing-device patent rather than unsourced rescue or traffic-signal compression.

Residence: Cleveland, Ohio
Category: public safety / breathing devices
Source status: medium high
Backlog status: indexable_profile_candidate
Primary sources: 1 mapped

Source trail

Claims stay tied to source limits.

Patent record

Patent text, case-file context, or patent-image trails that can support inventor, title, number, date, place, and claim language.

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US1113675A - Breathing Device

Google Patents / 1914 patent record

Supports: Shows Garrett A. Morgan connected to a breathing device patent issued October 13, 1914.
Limit: The patent record supports the public-safety invention row. It does not prove every later gas-mask, rescue, business, or traffic-signal claim.
Last checked: 2026-06-09
Source URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1113675A/en