![Marie Van Brittan Brown - 1960s. Due to an increase of crime in her neighborhood at the time, the nurse from Queens, New York, would invent the home security system common in Marie Van Brittan Brown - 1960s. Due to an increase of crime in her neighborhood at the time, the nurse from Queens, New York, would invent the home security system common in](https://preview.redd.it/wgdg9sdf4gy51.jpg?auto=webp&s=5a0872ca4d478d32a883dba9977055e2aa0d665e)
Marie Van Brittan Brown - 1960s. Due to an increase of crime in her neighborhood at the time, the nurse from Queens, New York, would invent the home security system common in
![Marie Van Brittan was an African American woman who contributed her livelihood to the invention of the first home security system. Marie Van Brittan was an African American woman who contributed her livelihood to the invention of the first home security system.](https://awis.org/wp-content/uploads/Marie-Van-Brittan-Brown-Nurse-and-Inventor_.png)
Marie Van Brittan was an African American woman who contributed her livelihood to the invention of the first home security system.
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