| Title |
Lester Wire |
| Collection |
Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection |
| File Name |
39222001407118 |
| Photo Number |
17844 |
| Publisher |
Utah State Historical Society |
| Date of Photograph |
1908 |
| Date |
1908 |
| Subject |
Inventors; Traffic signs and signals |
| Person |
Wire, Lester |
| Spatial Coverage |
Utah |
| Comment |
Lester Farnsworth Wire, shown here in his high school graduation photo, is credited with the invention of the first traffic light around 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image (c) 2004 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
Utah State Historical Society |
| Relation |
Classified Photo Collection, 921 Biography |
| Source Format |
Paper print |
| Source Size |
3.5 inches x 4.5 inches |
| Source Donors |
Utah State Department of Transportation |
| Type |
Image |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| Format Creation |
Image scanned on Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner at TIFF: 800 ppi resolution and 8-bit grayscale. Dimensions are JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels. |
| Scanned By |
Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qj7r1r |
| Setname |
dha_cp |
| ID |
433827 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qj7r1r |
