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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]
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
Anne Hampton Potts (born October 28, 1952) [1] is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Corvette Summer (1978) and won a Genie Award for Heartaches (1981), before appearing in Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Who's Harry Crumb?
William E. Potts (November 9, 1921 – August 16, 2005) was an American military general. Early life and World War II. William Edward Potts was born on 9 November ...
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.
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.
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 ...
William Orie Potts (April 3, 1928, Arlington, Virginia – February 16, 2005, Plantation, Florida) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. Early life.