🩷 Your Daily Dose of Women’s History… On December 2, 1969 (She applied for it December 1st, 1966), Marie Van Brittan Brown, a Black nurse in Jamaica, Queens, received U.S. Patent 3,482,037 for a “Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance,” co-invented with her husband, electronics technician Albert Brown. Working late shifts and often home alone, she knew the fear of not knowing who was at the door, so she designed a system that used a camera at the entrance and a monitor inside th

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