Albert Cameron Hunt

{{Short description|American electrician}} '''Albert Cameron Hunt''' (3 April 1857 – 2 October 1915) was an American electrician who invented the wigwag, a grade crossing signal used in transportation.<ref name="SFGate DelVecchio">{{cite news |last1=DelVecchio |first1=Rick |title=Wigwag War / Point Richmond residents fight to save artifacts from the low-tech era |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Wigwag-War-Point-Richmond-residents-fight-to-2879952.php |access-date=April 4, 2021 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=January 26, 2002}}</ref> Hunt, a mechanical engineer from Southern California, invented the wigwag in the early 1900s because of the need for a safer railroad grade crossing. Hunt was associated with the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar railroad.<ref name="Pacific">{{cite news |last1=Florence |first1=S.R. |title=Conceived and Developed Wig-Wags |url=http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/employeenews/PE_Mag_1929_Jul_10.pdf |access-date=April 4, 2021 |work=Pacific Electric Magazine |volume=14|issue=2 |date=July 10, 1929 |page=6}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/608029165/?terms=Albert%20c%2C%20Hunt&match=1 |access-date=20 March 2024 |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=4 October 1915 |page=14}}</ref><ref>''California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939''</ref>

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