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Patented the invention for the first traffic lights and the gas mask, respectively.

The gas mask was one of the key technologies used by troops during World War 1.

Garrett Augustus Morgan

(1877 – 1963)

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Mel Chevannes

In 1981 Mel Chevannes won a by-election for Graisley Ward and became the first African-Caribbean councillor in Wolverhampton. She lost her seat in the 1987 Local Elections. She became chair of the Social Services Committee in 1982.

Mel became the first African-Caribbean chairperson of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. She resigned her post on November 26, 2004.