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Otis Boykin was an African American inventor. He attended both the Illinois Institute of Technology and Fisk University but never graduated because he could not afford the tuition. He is best known for inventing an improved electric resistor that was used for a wide variety of electronic devices such as radios, computers, and televisions.
