I doubt she did anything. From what I could read of the patent her husband simply built a motorized device to mount a camera on to enable it to look through peepholes. A simple and useless technology that they wasted money and time on obtaining a patent. Blacks did not invent video cameras nor the concept of home security systems. Nor did blacks lay the foundation for it. Or does the creator of this video honestly believe that even though the video camera was invented in 1900 it was Mrs. Brown who was the very first to say "hey, I can use this for security purposes to see who is at the door." By the way, the creator likens this to modern day ring cameras. Well, the uniqueness of the Ring camera is that it can record and store images. Brown's idea does not include that. This is black revisionist history, nothing more.
1:54 "She created a remote system to unlock the door." She did not. This already existed for decades. She also did not invent the use of the intercom, either.
She invented a security system. She created a system, what part of a system you don't understand. Know one had a security door camera before she created it, point blank. She created a security door camera, nothing more, nothing less.
@@fbastoicnetwork I have a patent granted in 2001 that I invented and licensed pertaining to an integrated SYSTEM so I think I can speak with authority on it. So you actually believe nobody pointed a video camera, which was invented in 1900, outside of a door until 1969 ? Are you truly that ignorant ? Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Brown had the capability to design nor build a video camera...a technology that was produced DECADES earlier than 1969. All Mr. Brown invented was a pointless motorized mount to move a video camera linearly between peepholes. He nor his wife invented CCTV, the intercom, audio command control, nor remote control locks. All of that was old technology already invented by WHITE men. You need to learn how to read a patent before you continue to embarrass yourself with your faulty understanding of what these people did and did not do. Their patent story is about FAILURE, not success. Nobody purchased, took assignment, nor licensed their idea because it was useless. MOST patents are useless. If you want to post a black success story then make one about Thomas Sowell or Clarance Thomas or Larry Elder. Don't try to revise history.
I looked up the patent she and her husband filed. I don't see any reference to an infrared camera. Either way, the invention was a flop because it would have been too expensive to build at the time. The implication in this video is that the woman invented the video camera, which she most certainly didn't. She simply discussed putting a standard video camera in front of a peep hole and sending the video via radio to a receiver. Not genius. Ham radio operators were doing that since the 40s if not earlier.
I never said she invented the video camera. She was the first to invent the security camera. Brown’s invention laid the foundation for modern security systems. I never said she invented the infrared camera, her invention did lay the foundation for it.
@@fbastoicnetwork Your thumbnail clearly implies she invented the infrared security camera/system when she did not. You picked the photo. So you need to fix that. You conflate her (actually her husband's) failed attempt to implement OTHER people's established technology to create a system-with her having INVENTED the COMPONENTS of that system. This is very common for people who don't know how to read a patent. Or want to rewrite history. All her husband did was create a very simple motorized device to mount an already existing camera to look through peepholes. That's it. A pointless and failed technology as nobody wanted their "invention." If you didn't know, it flopped. She nor anyone black or female, invented the video camera nor the ability to transmit images/audio/commands to small monitors within a home for security purposes. This concept was already invented and well established by the 1940s and can easily be seen in almost every episode of the 1950s comedy show "Burns and Allen." Look up the history of TV and ham radio and you will find all the components invented and utilized decades before 1969. None of the inventors were black. The Brown's story is one of failure, not success. Their idea flopped because it was simplistic and useless. Nobody purchased the patent nor used it. Which is the case for MOST patents. Trying to ascribe other people's technology to a person just because she is a black woman is not only fraudulent, but morally wrong and divisive.
@@fbastoicnetwork Please show me the Brown patent for a "security camera." It doesn't exist because it was invented before she was born. You honestly believe that even though the video camera was invented in 1900 that NOBODY thought to use it for security until 1969 ? Stop misleading people with this video.
How can she invented the video camera if she was not a at least an electronic technician or knew something about electronics, you have to know how every electronic part works or something, she was just a nurse.
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I doubt she did anything. From what I could read of the patent her husband simply built a motorized device to mount a camera on to enable it to look through peepholes. A simple and useless technology that they wasted money and time on obtaining a patent. Blacks did not invent video cameras nor the concept of home security systems. Nor did blacks lay the foundation for it. Or does the creator of this video honestly believe that even though the video camera was invented in 1900 it was Mrs. Brown who was the very first to say "hey, I can use this for security purposes to see who is at the door." By the way, the creator likens this to modern day ring cameras. Well, the uniqueness of the Ring camera is that it can record and store images. Brown's idea does not include that. This is black revisionist history, nothing more.
1:54 "She created a remote system to unlock the door."
She did not. This already existed for decades.
She also did not invent the use of the intercom, either.
She invented a security system. She created a system, what part of a system you don't understand. Know one had a security door camera before she created it, point blank. She created a security door camera, nothing more, nothing less.
@@fbastoicnetwork I have a patent granted in 2001 that I invented and licensed pertaining to an integrated SYSTEM so I think I can speak with authority on it.
So you actually believe nobody pointed a video camera, which was invented in 1900, outside of a door until 1969 ? Are you truly that ignorant ?
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Brown had the capability to design nor build a video camera...a technology that was produced DECADES earlier than 1969.
All Mr. Brown invented was a pointless motorized mount to move a video camera linearly between peepholes. He nor his wife invented CCTV, the intercom, audio command control, nor remote control locks. All of that was old technology already invented by WHITE men.
You need to learn how to read a patent before you continue to embarrass yourself with your faulty understanding of what these people did and did not do. Their patent story is about FAILURE, not success. Nobody purchased, took assignment, nor licensed their idea because it was useless. MOST patents are useless.
If you want to post a black success story then make one about Thomas Sowell or Clarance Thomas or Larry Elder. Don't try to revise history.
I looked up the patent she and her husband filed. I don't see any reference to an infrared camera.
Either way, the invention was a flop because it would have been too expensive to build at the time.
The implication in this video is that the woman invented the video camera, which she most certainly didn't. She simply discussed putting a standard video camera in front of a peep hole and sending the video via radio to a receiver. Not genius. Ham radio operators were doing that since the 40s if not earlier.
I never said she invented the video camera. She was the first to invent the security camera. Brown’s invention laid the foundation for modern security systems. I never said she invented the infrared camera, her invention did lay the foundation for it.
@@fbastoicnetwork Your thumbnail clearly implies she invented the infrared security camera/system when she did not. You picked the photo. So you need to fix that.
You conflate her (actually her husband's) failed attempt to implement OTHER people's established technology to create a system-with her having INVENTED the COMPONENTS of that system. This is very common for people who don't know how to read a patent. Or want to rewrite history.
All her husband did was create a very simple motorized device to mount an already existing camera to look through peepholes. That's it. A pointless and failed technology as nobody wanted their "invention." If you didn't know, it flopped.
She nor anyone black or female, invented the video camera nor the ability to transmit images/audio/commands to small monitors within a home for security purposes. This concept was already invented and well established by the 1940s and can easily be seen in almost every episode of the 1950s comedy show "Burns and Allen." Look up the history of TV and ham radio and you will find all the components invented and utilized decades before 1969. None of the inventors were black.
The Brown's story is one of failure, not success. Their idea flopped because it was simplistic and useless. Nobody purchased the patent nor used it. Which is the case for MOST patents.
Trying to ascribe other people's technology to a person just because she is a black woman is not only fraudulent, but morally wrong and divisive.
@@fbastoicnetwork Please show me the Brown patent for a "security camera." It doesn't exist because it was invented before she was born.
You honestly believe that even though the video camera was invented in 1900 that NOBODY thought to use it for security until 1969 ?
Stop misleading people with this video.
How can she invented the video camera if she was not a at least an electronic technician or knew something about electronics, you have to know how every electronic part works or something, she was just a nurse.
@@gtechnosinc2518 This is absolutely correct.