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Albert Cameron Hunt

Albert Cameron Hunt

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Albert Cameron Hunt (3 April 1857 – 2 October 1915) was an American electrician who invented the wigwag, a grade crossing signal used in transportation.[1] Hunt was a mechanical engineer from Southern California. He invented the wigwag in the early 1900s out of the necessity for a safer railroad grade crossing. Hunt was associated with the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar railroad.[2]

Hunt was born in Freeport, Illinois, the son of Alexander Cameron Hunt, governor of the Territory of Colorado from 1867–69, and Ellen Kellogg. He died of neurosyphilis in 1915.[3][4]

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  1. [1]
    DelVecchio, Rick (January 26, 2002). "Wigwag War / Point Richmond residents fight to save artifacts from the low-tech era". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. [2]
    Florence, S.R. (July 10, 1929). "Conceived and Developed Wig-Wags" (PDF). Pacific Electric Magazine. Vol. 14, no. 2. p. 6. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Deaths". Los Angeles Evening Express. 4 October 1915. p. 14. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939


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