Police-The Police Alarm Box
by Paul Ward
Title
Police-The Police Alarm Box
Artist
Paul Ward
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Photograph
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An antique police alarm call box which dates between 1888 through the early 1900s. made of solid cast iron. Rarely seen in this day and age, but at the time this was state of the art. A police alarm box is an outdoor device used for notifying a police department of an emergency. Early boxes used the telegraph system and were the main method of calling the police department to a neighborhood in the days before people had telephones. When the box is triggered, a spring-loaded wheel spins and taps out a signal onto the fire alarm telegraph wire, indicating the box number. The receiver at the police station then can match the number to the neighborhood.
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October 24th, 2017
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