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  2. William Potts (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    William Potts (May 1883 – 1947) was a Detroit police officer who is credited with inventing the modern, three-lens traffic light in Detroit in 1920. (A gas-powered, two-lens, red/green traffic signal was invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, though after a short test installation, traffic lights were not seen again in the U.K. until 1929.) [1]

  3. Whipper Billy Watson - Wikipedia

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    William John Potts, OOnt (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson. He was a two-time world champion, having held both the National Wrestling Association title and the National Wrestling Alliance title. On February 21, 1947, he became the first man to win a world ...

  4. William Potts - Wikipedia

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    William Potts (inventor) (1883–1947), American policeman and inventor of modern traffic lights William E. Potts (1921–2005), American army general William Estel Potts (1935–2004), American army general

  5. Lester Wire - Wikipedia

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    Lester Wire was born on September 3, 1887, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Frank and Lida Wire. He had three sisters: Ora, Zelta, and Edith. [1] He and his family were Mormons. [2]

  6. Cop Rock - Wikipedia

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    As the investigation grows, Hollander questions Detective William Donald Potts, promising qualified immunity if he reveals what happened to Weeks; Potts agrees to talk. Rose and Gaines respond to a domestic violence call, where the latter shows he does not know how to deescalate the situation without Rose's help; they leave after the couple ...

  7. History of traffic lights - Wikipedia

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    Potts also placed a timer with the light to help coordinate the lights. A tower was used to mount the lights as the junction at which it was installed was one of the busiest in the world, with over 20,000 vehicles a day. [3]: 35 Los Angeles installed its first automated traffic signals in October 1920 at five locations on Broadway.

  8. Bill Potts (musician) - Wikipedia

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    William Orie Potts (April 3, 1928, Arlington, Virginia – February 16, 2005, Plantation, Florida) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. Early life.

  9. Katherine Emmons Force - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Wolcott Spencer (1925–2010), [7] who wed Marjorie Potts, daughter of Owen Lewis Potts of Santiago, Chile, in 1957. [8] William Hurlbut Force Spencer (1929-2022), who married Louise Thacher Jones (1927–2013) in 1956. [9] [10] Later in her life, she became a real estate investor and was a member of the zoning board for Newport.