an improved electrical resistor
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. |
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