Otis Boykin invented an improved electrical resistor used in computers - radios - television sets and a variety of electronic devices. Boykin's resistor helped reduce the cost of those products. Otis Boykin also invented a variable resistor used in guided missile parts, a control unit for heart stimulators, a burglar-proof cash register and a chemical air filter.
After
graduating from Fisk University and the Illinois Institute of Technology,
Otis Boykin worked in a laboratory testing automatic controls for airplanes.
He later worked as a consultant for several firms and as a successful inventor.
Boykin died of a heart failure in 1982.
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Boykin's Patent
Famous electrical resistor granted
to Otis Boykin.
Otis
Boykin
He is responsible for inventing
the electrical device used in all guided missles and IBM computers.
Patents
Issued to Otis Boykin
List of complete patents attributed
to Otis Boykin.
Otis Boykin
Otis Boykin invented electronic
devices used in heart stimulators and guided missiles.
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