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===Hair care products=== Morgan conducted experiments with a liquid that gave sewing machine needles a high polish, that prevented the needle from burning fabric as it sewed. In 1905, Morgan accidentally discovered that the liquid could straighten hair.<ref name=ClevelandHistory/> After he discovered this, he wiped the liquid on a piece of pony fur cloth and it stood straight. He observed that the liquid worked on his neighbor's dog and his own hair.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=David E. |title=Inventing Modern America: from the microwave to the mouse |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-262-26936-0 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=106β107 |language=English}}</ref> He made the liquid into a refining cream and launched the ''G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Company'' to market it. Morgan received great success and added other products including "hair-growing" cream, black hair oil dye, and a curved-tooth comb for hair straightening in 1910.<ref name="CAH">{{Cite web |title=Garrett Morgan, African-American Inventor of the Traffic Light and Gas Mask |url=https://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/africanamerican/garret-morgan.htm |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.clevelandpeople.com}}</ref>
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