From traffic lights to peanut butter, Black inventors have introduced countless innovations that have shaped modern life.

That’s the exact situation that the black American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown found herself in. When the only thing to do is do it yourself Living in Queens, New York in the 1960s ...

Often coming home late from her job as a nurse in Queens, New York, African American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown came up with the idea for the modern-day home security system. Along with her ...

A nurse, who was often home alone, Marie Van Brittan Brown came up with an idea that would make her feel safer. Together with her husband Albert, Van Brittan Brown developed the first home ...

Marie Van Brittan Brown of Queens invented the home security system In the late 1960s, Marie Van Brittan Brown was a nurse who lived in Jamaica, Queens. When she got worried about crime in her ...

Narrator:In 1966 an American nurse named Marie Van Brittan Brown came up with a new idea for a new type of security system with her husband Albert. Narrator:Brown's invention was officially ...

Concerned by the high levels of property crime in her New York City neighbourhood, Marie Van Brittan Brown, who was working as a nurse at the time, pretty much created the multibillion-dollar home ...

Francesca Brittan, associate professor of music at the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as a scholar-in-residence at The Bard Music Festival alongside colleague Sarah Hibberd of Bristol ...

Nancy Marie Van Anne passed away on August 26, 2024 at Grace Pointe Senior Care Community in Greeley, Colorado. She was born December 16, 1927 to Emil and Bernadina Van Anne in Rock Rapids, Iowa. She ...