1418 Shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter This is the second week of our March biweekly series that focuses on black women who changed the world with their inventions. Marie Van Brittan Brown: African American woman Marie Van Brittan Brown contributed to making people feel safer at home by inventing the first video home security system alongside her husband, Albert Brown. She was born in 1922 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She grew up as an only child, and not much is known about her parents. Marie worked as a young nurse and often came home late at night, … Continue reading Two Important Inventions That Will Not Exist Without Black Women