Vintage Fire Alarm System
by Paul Ward
Title
Vintage Fire Alarm System
Artist
Paul Ward
Medium
Photograph
Description
Rarely seen in this day and age, but at the time this was state of the art. A fire alarm box is an outdoor device used for notifying a fire department of a fire. Early boxes used the telegraph system and were the main method of calling the fire 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 a fire station then can match the number to the neighborhood.
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May 28th, 2020
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