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1966

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African American Nurse Makes
Homes Safer

Jamaica, Queens, New York.

In 1966, Brown invented a system that used a camera that could slide into and look through four peepholes in her front door. Her invention was the first closed-circuit television security system that later became the bases for the Home security systems used today.

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