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Black History Month

Black History Month. Vidalejandra Araujo Rojo Block 2. Otis Boykin (1920-1982). Was born on August 29, 1920, in Dallas, Texas. His mother Sarah was a homemaker and his father Walter was a carpenter, who later became a minister. Attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas.

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Black History Month

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  1. Black History Month Vidalejandra Araujo Rojo Block 2

  2. Otis Boykin (1920-1982) • Was born on August 29, 1920, in Dallas, Texas. • His mother Sarah was a homemaker and his father Walter was a carpenter, who later became a minister.

  3. Attended Booker T. WashingtonHigh School in Dallas. • He attended Fisk University and worked as a laboratory assistant at the university's nearby aerospace laboratory.

  4. He was discovered and mentored by Dr. Hal F. Fruth. • Fruth and Boykin would collaborate on a number of research projects.

  5. He attended the Illinois Institute of Technology for a time, Otis Boykin never made it to graduation because he couldn't afford tuition.

  6. Boykin, in his lifetime, ultimately invented more than 28 electronic devices: Resistors and Control Unit…

  7. A variable resistor used in… Guided Missiles… Radios and televisions…

  8. Few inventors have had the lasting impact of Otis Boykin…

  9. Boykin's most famous invention… was likely a control unit for the artificial heart pacemaker.

  10. What is a heart pacemaker? It is a medical device that uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contracting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart.

  11. Boykin's inventions are all the more impressive when one considers he was an African American in a time of segregation.

  12. Thank you!

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