jelun

A friend of mine mentioned taking baby steps on his snow and ice covered parking lot.
This is an example of inventive baby steps, much more significant.

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Home Security Inventions

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 Albert Brown, applied for an invention patent 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.

For more information on Marie Van Brittan Brown and her inventions, refer to:

Famous African-American Female Inventor: Marie Brown
African-American Inventors of Our Times

jeff smith

that's pretty darn good. I did not know this. but there is a lot that I don't know.

jelun

There is a lot most of us don't know, the trick is to realize that fact.
Have a good one.

jeff smith

you do the same. have a great day.