Save your house, building and furniture from fire hazard with fire alarm. Fire alarm cannot be separated from flame detector. Flame detector will activate the alarm if they detect any heat or smoke in the certain room.
Francis Robbins Upton is the inventor of automatic fire alarm in 1890. The price of this product is quite expensive that makes not all of the people afford to buy this product. It uses a complicated design and it is uneasy to install.
Smoke detector has been improved from its first technology. The first smoke detector was invented by a Swiss Physicist, Walter Jaeger. This device was accidentally found when he wanted to make a sensor for poison gas. He frustrated because the device did not work well on a very small quantity of the poison gas. Then, he lit his cigarette. He was surprised since his device detected smoke from his cigarette.
Then, Duane D. Pearsall invented affordable smoke detector for house usage for the first time. This device needs battery to turn it on. It is easily replaced and installed. Thus, Duane built her first company in Lakewood, Colorado, namely Statirol Corporation.
Smoke detectors are sold in the market in 1969. At this period the price of the detector was very expensive that is why only business building and government building are equipped with this device. Due to the function of this device, today, almost all homes and building has been equipped with this device.
Some people complaint because their alarms do not work as the manufacturer’s claimed. The problem is that they forget to replace the battery or they install the device without the battery.
Hopefully, this article will help you to improve your house’s security. Have you equipped your house with this safety device? If the answer is yes, have you checked them regularly? Many fire hazards are happened because the user forgets to replace the battery.