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Otis Boykin - The Silent Engineer Of Their Survival!

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Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920 – March 26, 1982) was an American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers.

Otis Boykin was born on August 29, 1920, in Dallas, Texas. His father, Walter B. Boykin, was a carpenter, and later became a preacher. His mother, Sarah, was a maid, who died of heart failure when Otis was a year old. This inspired him to help improve the pacemaker. Boykin attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, where he was the valedictorian, graduating in 1938. He attended Fisk University on a scholarship, worked as a laboratory assistant at the university's nearby aerospace laboratory, and left in 1941.

Boykin patented as many as 26 devices. He is best known for inventing multiple different electronic control devices in guided missiles, IBM computers, and in the pacemaker. One of his early inventions was an improved wire resistor, which had reduced inductance and reactance, due to the physical arrangement of the wire.

Other notable inventions include a variable resistor used in guided missiles. His most famous invention was likely a control unit for the artificial cardiac pacem aker. The device essentially uses electrical impulses to maintain a regular heartbeat. Among his other inventions is a burglar-proof cash register.

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Otis F. Boykin:  Black Inventor Of The Wire Precision Resistor

Otis Frank Boykin invented the wire precision resistor. His invention greatly reduced the cost of many electronic devices and improved their quality. Click the link to learn more. #Blackmail4u #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryFact #OtisBoykin #STEM

Welcome To Black Mail! Where we bring you Black History, Special Delivery. Black inventor Otis F. Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas. His mother died before his first birthday. His father was employed as a carpenter and later became a minister.  Boykin graduated from Fisk University in 1941. While in college, he worked as a laboratory assistant at an aerospace laboratory, testing…

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Otis Boykin  was an African American inventor who began his career as a laboratory assistant testing automatic controls for aircraft. One of Boykin's first achievements was a type of resistor used in computers, radios, television sets, and a variety of electronic devices. He is responsible for inventing the electrical device used in all guided missiles and IBM computers, plus 26 other electronic devices including a control unit for an artificial heart stimulator (pacemaker).

Some of his other inventions include a variable resistor used in guided missiles and small component thick-film resistors for computers. The innovations in resistor design reduced the cost of producing electronic controls for radio and television, for both military and commercial applications. Other inventions by Otis Boykin included a burglarproof cash register and a chemical air filter. He worked as a private consultant for several American firms and three Paris firms, from 1964 to 1982.

Ironically, Otis Boykin, who invented a device to stimulate heart action, died in Chicago of heart failure in 1982.

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Day 20 of Black History Month and today I'm focusing on Otis Boykin who first invented a resistor capable of extreme shock, and temperatures which would lead him to develop the control unit for the pacemaker.

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Otis Boykin

Innovating electrical resistors that are used in devices by everyone today; this includes televisions, radios, computers, guided missiles, and pacemakers.

Born 1920, Dallas, Texas. Boykin received his undergraduate degree from Fisk College in 1941;  and although attending the Illinois Institute of Technology a few years after for graduate work, Boykin had to drop out due a job opportunity that didn’t work out. This however didn’t stop him from contributing and innovating.

In 1959 Boykin received his first patent for a wire precision resistor; this device allowed for specific amounts of electric current to pass through, which was ideal for radios and television sets. A few years later he improved upon the device by making the manufacturing more inexpensive, resistant to extreme changes in temperature, and durable to physical trauma. This had the U.S. Military, IBM, and other consumer electronics companies knocking at his door. Boykin would go on to create resistors for computers, guided missiles, and a variety of other devices.

One of his more life-saving achievements was a control unit for the artificial heart pacemaker, a device used to maintain a regular heartbeat through electrical impulses. He would earn more than 25 patents for electronic devices.

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