Home Security: The CCTV System Was Invented by a Woman
Marie Van Brittan Brown, pioneer of the CCTV system, patented the first home security system in the 1960s
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CCTV systems, or Closed Circuit Television systems, are a common view in today’s streets, public spaces, and private homes — both indoors and outdoors — worldwide. Their main purpose is to prevent crime and aid police investigation.
A brief history of home security technology
The first home security systems can be traced back to 390 BCE; back then, geese served as a way to alert of the presence of intruders around a house.
Augustus Russell Pope, a Unitarian minister in New England, invented the first burglar alarm.
Patent number 9802 was issued on June 21, 1853 to his invention that was known as the “Pope Patent.” The system used electromagnets that rang a bell with a hammer when a door or window opened.
In the 1940s, video surveillance was invented. But this technology was not used for home security until 1969 when a nurse invented and patented the first video-based home security system.
