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Marie Van Brittan Brown
While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable. That was the year famous African-American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown and her partner/husband, Albert Brown, applied for an invention patent (patent number 3482037 ) for a closed-circuit television security system—the forerunner to the modern home security system.
Brown’s system had a set of four peep holes and a camera that could slide up and down to look out each one. Anything the camera picked up would appear on a monitor. An additional feature of Brown’s invention was that a person also could unlock a door with a remote control.
A female black inventor far ahead of her time, Marie Van Brittan Brown created an invention that was the first in a long string of home-security inventions that continue to flood the market today.
Marie Van Britton Brown was born on October 30, 1922, in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. She died on February 2, 1999, in the very same place.
Source: The Internet
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