Do you love your laptop, iPad and iPhone?
Do you appreciate National Security?
Thank Otis Boykin.
He is best known for inventing an improved electrical resistor used in computers, radios, television sets and a variety of electronic devices. His resistor helped reduce the cost of those products.
A 1941 graduate of , 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. In total, Otis Boykin patented 21 electronic devices.
Otis, thanks for your electronics genius!
Credit: www.About.com
