On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:12:40 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
wrote:

On May 17, 3:28*pm, mm wrote:


Boykin was black, btw. *Fisk is a historically black college.

There are a lot of hits for him in "famous black people" sites, some
of which make a variety of improbable claims*. He did receive a dozen
patents, mostly for CTS (originally Chicago Telephone Supply). When
CTS moved to Indiana, Boykin stayed in Chicago -- perhaps educated
blacks weren't welcome in Indiana**.

The Klan was big in parts of Indiana, mostly the southern half. While
schools in Indianapolis weren't officially segregated against Blacks,
they created a high school just for Blacks to suck up most of them and
keep them out of the other schools, and black students from other high
schools were forced to attend Crispus Attucks H.S. It accepted its
first white students in 1967.

One patent lists his address as
8251 S. Maryland, which I note is a three-flat according to the pic at
the Cook County assessor site.

*Improbable that Boykin invented the pacemaker or a guided missile,

It didn't say that in the wikip page,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Boykin only that he invented a
valuable part.

It shows "An ink drawing of Otis Boykin from a U.S. Department of
Energy biographical sketch of 1979." on which is written "Electronic
Devices for heart stimulators and guided missiles.

or
that pot fueled his inventiveness.

LOL I think pot refers to potentiometer. "Other notable inventions
include a variable resistor used in guided missiles"

**Pioneer hormone synthesizer, Percy Julian, had to leave Indiana to
find work, ending up at the Glidden Paint company in Chicago.