CULTURETECHLENSMarie Van Brittan Brown
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Combined Graph record U-03258 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1198. Master record source: User-supplied article 2026-10-16 (UrbanGeekz) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Co-invented the first home security system (patent filed 1966) with her husband Albert Brown — the CCTV blueprint for modern security systems
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Co-invented the first home security system (patent filed 1966) with her husband Albert Brown — the CCTV blueprint for modern security systems
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- Role(s): inventor, scientist, engineer
- Known for: Co-invented the first home security system (patent filed 1966) with her husband Albert Brown — the CCTV blueprint for modern security systems
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- Under-Celebrated Black Tech Pioneers — appears on
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- Home Security System — authored by → this record
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- https://ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/28/home-security-voip-honoring-black-women-inventors-last-half-century/ (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
IPWatchdog reproducing the USPTO record confirms: Marie Van Brittan Brown, a nurse in Jamaica, Queens, inventor of the first home security/closed-circuit television system; her husband (electronics technician) assisted; the couple filed 'Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance' on August 1, 1966, issued as U.S. Patent No. 3,482,037 on December 2, 1969; system was a precursor to modern security systems (CCTV blueprint claim supported).
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