Marie Van Brittan Brown invented a video home security system in 1966

 

Marie Van Brittan Brown

 (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999)

 

 

Marie Van Brittan Brown  was a nurse and an innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system^[1] along with her husband Albert Brown, an electronics technician.^[2] 

 

 In the same year, they applied for a patent for their innovative security system, which was granted in 1969. Brown was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York;^[3] she died there at the age of 76 in 1999.