Left, a portion of the patent plan designed by Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert, right. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown, courtesy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

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 ...

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 ...