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Lester Farnsworth Wire (September 3, 1887 – April 14, 1958) was credited with the invention of the electric traffic light in 1912, in Salt Lake City. Wire worked as a detective for the Salt Lake City police force. The original traffic light, based on a semaphore system, had been invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, but had not been a success. The earliest known patent for a traffic light in the United States was U.S.Patent # 1,251,666, issued January 1, 1918, to J.B. Hoge of Cleveland, Ohio.