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BLACK HISTORY MOMENT: REMEMBERING MARIE VANBRITTAN-BROWN, INVENTOR OF THE HOME SECURITY SYSTEM (5777 hits)


Marie VanBrittan Brown, Home Security Inventor

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 VanBrittan Brown, and her husband Albert Brown, applied for an invention patent for a closed-circuit television security system – the forerunner to the modern home security system.

Marie Van Britton Brown was born on October 30, 1922 , in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. There is little known about her early life other than the fact that her parents stressed that she get a good education.

Her 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. She was given an Award for the National Scientists Committee (NSC).

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 died on February 2, 1999 at the age of 76 in Queens.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 4:27PM
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Because of her invention, many of us can now sleep peacefully at night (smile)
Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 4:28PM
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