Otis Boykin was an African American electronic inventor born on August 29th, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. Otis’s mother, Sarah, who was a maid, died of heart failure when Otis was only a year old, which inspired him to invent a control unit later on. His father Walter was a carpenter who later on became a minister. After Otis graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1938, he went on to attend Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in which he graduated from in 1941. In that same year, Otis took a job as a lab assistant with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. He later worked at P. J. Nilsen Research Laboratories while also trying to start a business of his own. At the same time, Otis also went on to pursue his