William Phelps Eno

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William Phelps Eno (born June 3, 1858 in New York City , † December 3, 1945 ) was an American entrepreneur and pioneer of road safety .

Eno came from a Simsbury , Connecticut- resident, respected and wealthy family of business people and politicians. He was the son of Amos Richards Eno, who had made a fortune doing real estate in New York. Eno graduated from Yale University in 1882 where he was a member of the influential Skull and Bones association . Until 1899 he was also active in the real estate industry. It was not until he was 40 that he devoted himself entirely to road safety. In 1900 Eno published a pamphlet called Reform in Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed . In 1903 he designed the Road Traffic Act (city traffic code) for New York, a pioneering achievement. He worked out traffic plans for New York, London and Paris and developed a wide range of relevant publications over the decades. The following innovations are attributed to Eno: the stop sign , the one-way street , the roundabout , the taxi stand and the traffic island . In 1921 he founded the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control, now the Eno Transportation Foundation , a non-profit foundation for promoting road safety. He was an honorary member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers . Eno was an avid rider, but never had a driver's license .

literature

  • John A. Montgomery: Eno - The Man and the Foundation: A Chronicle of Transportation. 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On family history cf. the Simsbury Cemetery website ( PDF ( December 13, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ see Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Year 1945–1946, Yale University, 1947

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personal data
SURNAME Eno, William Phelps
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and road safety pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1945