On August 29, 1920, a great inventor by the name of Otis F. Boykin was born. He was the son of Sarah Cox a homemaker and Walter Benjamin Boykin a carpenter. He had a total of nine siblings 2 sisters and 7 brothers. Otis was raised in Dallas, Texas. Later his family later moved to Tennessee.
Otis finished high school and graduated from Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1941. His first job out of college was at the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. He was a lab assistant in charge of testing automatic aircraft controls. Otis was eventually promoted to a supervisor position. He took another position at the P. J. Nielsen Research Labs where he was a Research Engineer. Otis Boykin left and became an entrepreneur. He started a business called Boykin-Fruth Incorporation. He was also tried to further his education by attending school at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Otis left school for financial reasons. In 1964 Otis Boykin spent a few years in Paris, France where he invented the pacemaker.
He went on as an inventor and improved the electrical resistor used in phones, computers, radios, televisions and many other electrical devices. Overall he created 28 inventions and held 26 patents. He invented a variable resistor for guided missile parts, the pacemaker, electrical resistor, a wire precision resistor, burglar proof cash register and a chemical air filter.
In 1982 Otis Boykin died in Chicago, Illinois due to heart failure. Although he is gone, many of his inventions live on in the electrical products that we use today.
Otis Boykin's Pacemaker Invention:
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