Whenever you check your video doorbell or arm your alarm system, you are using technology pioneered by Marie Van Brittan Brown. Working as a nurse in 1960s Queens, New York, she faced the danger of coming home at odd hours. She and her husband Albert designed a revolutionary system using peepholes, cameras, two-way audio, and remote locks.

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