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Jan072008

Sometimes old technology is still good technology

Filed under Uncategorized by david brooks at 9:20 am

For example, fire alarm boxes. As the Globe notes, the technology of these public "open door pull handle" boxes are older than the oldest telephones, yet Boston still has several thousand of them around. And it’s got no plans to ditch them, despite cell phones and the like, because the boxes are so incredibly robust.

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Moses Farmer who was the co-inventor of the fire alarm system, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire.

What I consider his greater feat was that in 1868, eleven years before Edison patented his version of the light bulb, Moses Farmer, with a dynamo of his own invention, illuminated a room of his house (in Salem Massachusetts) for several months--this was the first known case of domestic incandescent lighting.

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