History of Industry

  1. 1658
  2. 1700
  3. 1852
  4. 1853
  5. 1857
  6. 1962

  1. Firemen in New York

    1658

    Originally, firemen in New York were hired to walk around the streets with buckets and ladders and rang bells to notify the people around the area.

  2. Tildesley

    1700

    Tildesley, an English inventor, designed a door alarm that detects intrusions by using a series of chimes and bells connected to the lock that jingled whenever someone tried to open the lock.

  3. City wide municipal fire system

    1852

    William Channing created the first city wide municipal fire system at Boston’s City Wall. The very next night it received the first fire alert. Channing went on to get a patent in 1857 for which is known as the “city system”

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    1853

    The first electro-magnetic alarm system was patented by a man named Augustus Russell Pope

  5. Edwin Holmes

    1857

    Edwin Holmes, known as the father of the modern alarm system, purchased the patented and opened “Holmes Electric Protection Company”

  6. Livestock

    1962

    Livestock and other sorts of animals, such as dogs and even geese were used to alarm people of any type of intrusion.