To the rescue!
Subtitle: Garrett Morgan underground
By: Monica Kulling ; illustrated by David Parkins
Contributors: Parkins, David, illustrator
Series: Great idea series
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781770495203; 9781770495210; 9781101918814
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Inventeurs noirs americains; Biographies; African American inventors; Juvenile literature; Breathing apparatus; Biography
Description: Shares the inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, whose incredible safety hood became a forerunner to the gas masks that saved thousands of soldiers during World War I.

In 1911, 146 workers died in the shocking Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Morgan decided to invent a safety hood for firefighters-- but people weren't interested in buying his safety hood when they discovered its inventor was black. When an explosion trapped workers in a tunnel under Lake Erie in 1916, his hoods were rushed to the scene and used to rescue as many men as possible. Developed further, Garrett's invention came to save thousands of soldiers from chlorine gas in the trenches of World War I.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (title page verso).

Issued also in an electronic format.

A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Table of contents: title: In 1911, 146 workers died in the shocking Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Morgan decided to invent a safety hood for firefighters; title: but people weren't interested in buying his safety hood when they discovered its inventor was black. When an explosion trapped workers in a tunnel under Lake Erie in 1916, his hoods were rushed to the scene and used to rescue as many men as possible. Developed further, Garrett's invention came to save thousands of soldiers from chlorine gas in the trenches of World War I.