We appreciate our home being kept secure when we are away, but how many of us have given much thought to the genius behind ...

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 ...

Alexander Miles, Charles Richard Drew, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Mark E. Dean are just a few notable African-American inventors. We live in a world with blood banks ...

Imagine a world without Marie Curie’s groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in the discovery of DNA, or Ada Lovelace’s visionary work in computer programming.

One of those women is Marie Van Brittan Brown, a name that should be synonymous with innovation in home security. In 1966, Marie, a nurse working long shifts in a neighbourhood plagued by slow ...