The simplest ideas can be the ones that change the world. For Otis Boykin, it was a new way to make wirewound precision resistors. Just like that, he altered the course of electronics with his ...

The inventor Otis Frank Boykin, known for inventing the wire precision resistor, was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. Boykin’s mother, Sarah Boykin, worked as a maid before dying in ...

The work of engineer Otis Boykin helped facilitate a revolution in electronics, from the pacemaker to guided missiles. Boykin was born in Dallas in August 1920. His parents had very modest ...

The simplest ideas can be the ones that change the world. For Otis Boykin, it was a new way to make wirewound precision resistors. Just like that, he altered the course of electronics with his ...

Otis Frank Boykin was a black engineer who is best known for inventing multiple different electronic control devices in cardiac pacemakers. A cardiac pacemaker is an electronic device that sends ...

Smith organizes her achievements first by field ... The pacemaker? Thank Otis F. Boykin, who started working on the device in 1959. Dr. Charles Drew's experiments with plasma inspired him to ...

CRN celebrates executives and pioneers from IBM, AT&T, Xerox, Oracle, WWT and other tech giants this Black History Month. In time for Black History Month, CRN is featuring a sampling of the ...

In 1961, inventor Otis Boykin received a patent for a novel electrical resistor that was simpler and less expensive to manufacture than current resistors that were wound on bobbins. According to the ...

As Black History month comes to a close, let us celebrate a few of modern history's great African-American inventors - such as Otis Boykin, graduate of Nashville's Fisk College and inventor of the ...