Marie Van Brittan Brown, a Black American inventor, was granted U.S. Patent No. 3,482,037 for her invention of the first home security system. Designed in response to rising crime rates and slow police response times in her Queens, New York neighborhood, the system included:
Television surveillance to view visitors at the door,
Two-way communication, allowing homeowner and visitor to see each other,
And a remote-controlled lock, giving the homeowner the ability to open the door from a distance.
Her innovation laid the groundwork for modern home security systems and was a pioneering advancement in the intersection of safety and technology.
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