Otis Boykin

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  • Birth

  • fisk college, Narshville

  • took a job as lab assistant

  • He was forced to drop out in 1947, after only two years of education, because he was unable to afford tuition.

  • pacemaker

  • began researching and inventing on his own. He sought and received a patent for a wire precision resistor on June 16, 1959.

  • In 1964, Boykin moved to Paris, creating electronic innovations for a new market of customers

  • theft proof cash registor

  • electrical capacitor and the method

  • otis boykin dies

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