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Marie Van Brittan Brown

(1922 - 1999)

Nurse/Inventor/invented closed circuit TV initially for home security/Jamaica, Queens native

“Since 1993 property crime has fallen in the US by 69% thanks to the pioneering work of one woman: Marie Van Brittan Brown”

Read story with the New York Times,” New York Times, December 6, 1969 (“Audio-Viewer Screens Calls)p.55

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