Electric fire alarm is patented in Boston

William Francis Channing of Boston and Moses Gerrish Farmer of Salem, Massachusetts patented the first electric fire alarm.  Boston was the first city to experiment with the system. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 262.
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