#otis boykin

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.

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

Ripped remembers Otis Boykin, Inventor of an artificial heart pacemaker control unit.

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  Otis Boykin (Born: August 29, 1920, Dallas, TX) invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.

AFRCICANGLOBE – Few inventors have had the lasting impact of Otis Boykin. Look around the house today and you’ll see a variety of devices that utilize components made by Otis Boykin – including computers, radios and TV sets. Otis Boykin’s inventions are all the more...