when was signal lights first put on cars
According to the December 1985 issue of Popular Mechanics, the Protex Safety Signal Company introduced flashing turn signals in 1920. The first modern turn signal, though, can be attributed to Edgar A. Walz, Jr. who, in 1925, secured a patent for one and tried to market it to major car manufacturers. They just weren't interested, and the patent expired fourteen years later. Meanwhile drivers and inventors kept working on other solutions.