#12: Marie Van Brittan Brown – Home Security System
Just because someone might be in one particular profession doesn’t necessarily mean that they are only passionate about one thing… We humans all have so many different passions and dreams, so it only makes sense that people try their hand at other things. Who says a trained nurse can’t also become an inventor?
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Well, even if anybody did try and stop nurse Marie Van Britten Brown, she wouldn’t have let them. Having lived in an unsafe neighborhood, she and her husband were fed up with the constant threat of house break-ins. So the two of them created a patent for the first home security system utilizing a television screen and were approved for the patent in 1969.