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This 5 page paper discusses fire alarm systems, past and present, and how they operate. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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fire alarms were church bells, which were rung as soon as a fire was spotted (Murphy, 1977). After that, it became common "to build tall bell towers for the purpose
of spotting fires and summoning volunteer firefighters" (Fire watch tower). The towers were manned by men known as bell ringers, who spent "long shifts on the lookout" for fires (Fire
watch tower). If they saw a fire, they would ring the bell in the tower, at which point someone from the fire station "would run to the tower to receive
the location of the fire, and the horse-drawn fire wagon would rush to the scene" (Fire watch tower). Neighbors and friends would assemble bucket brigades at the fire scene and
try to put out the blaze (Fire watch tower). A great breakthrough came with the fire alarm telegraph, which we still know today as the common fire alarm pull box.
(This is also the electric alarm, which was invented by William Channing and Moses Farmer (IEEE history center: Electric fire alarm system, 1852, 2004)). The first one was installed in
Boston in 1852 and the first alarm sounded on April 26, 1852 (Fire alarm telegraph systems). This system is still in wide use, but the spread of the 911 number
and E911 has made these systems obsolete, and they are disappearing (Fire alarm telegraph systems). But they are still in operation, "probably the only 19th century technology that is still
in everyday use ... because it works" (Fire alarm telegraph systems). Fire alarm initiating devices include any device that "initiates an alarm, supervisory, or trouble signal. Fire alarm initiating
devices include smoke detectors, manual pull stations, waterflow switches and valve tamper switches (Fire alarm initiating devices). A smoke detector detects smoke in one of two ways: a photoelectric type
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