Good morning.
Whitewater will have a Monday of showers with a high of seventy-one.
The School Board meets tonight, first in closed session at 6 PM and later to open session.
On this day in 1914, a new method of traffic regulation:
The world’s first electric traffic signal is put into place on the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on this day in 1914….
Various competing claims exist as to who was responsible for the world’s first traffic signal. A device installed in London in 1868 featured two semaphore arms that extended horizontally to signal “stop” and at a 45-degree angle to signal “caution.” In 1912, a Salt Lake City, Utah, police officer named Lester Wire mounted a handmade wooden box with colored red and green lights on a pole, with the wires attached to overhead trolley and light wires. Most prominently, the inventor Garrett Morgan has been given credit for having invented the traffic signal based on his T-shaped design, patented in 1923 and later reportedly sold to General Electric.
Despite Morgan’s greater visibility, the system installed in Cleveland on August 5, 1914, is widely regarded as the first electric traffic signal. Based on a design by James Hoge, who received U.S. patent 1,251,666 for his “Municipal Traffic Control System” in 1918, it consisted of four pairs of red and green lights that served as stop-go indicators, each mounted on a corner post. Wired to a manually operated switch inside a control booth, the system was configured so that conflicting signals were impossible. According to an article in The Motorist, published by the Cleveland Automobile Club in August 1914: “This system is, perhaps, destined to revolutionize the handling of traffic in congested city streets and should be seriously considered by traffic committees for general adoption.”
On this day in 1850, Wisconsin gets a new fraternal organization:
1850 – Order of the Druids Organized in Milwaukee
On this date the Order of the Druids was organized in Milwaukee. One of the oldest fraternal organizations in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Grove No. 1 was organized by charter members A.F. Hausemann, H.M. Brietz, Joseph Lachner, and G.F. Becker. The order offered benefits and insurance for its members. [Source: History of Milwaukee, Vol.II, by William George Bruce, p.285]
Puzzability‘s new series this week is about mythology:
Myth Takes
For this week of freaks and Greeks, we started each day with a mythical creature. Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with a Greek column in place of the creature.
Example:
I am not rising from this comfortable so
til I’ve finished this fascinating myth about the early days of Mt. Olympus.
Answer:
Faun (sofa until)
What to Submit:
Submit the mythical creature (as “Faun” in the example) for your answer.
Monday, August 5:
Some people called Zeu
ant, but many mortals felt he was a benevolent ruler.