OLD FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
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8 жыл бұрынThis beautiful old Toledo school was built in 1922 with a manual pull rod fire alarm system. In 1940, the system was automated with an electric Autocall control panel using vibrating horns as the signaling devices. The code is the cadence marching code, 4-4-4-4 that signals four complete rounds. This particular code always assured a quick and orderly evacuation of any building. Sadly, as with so many old, magnificent schools of this caliber, it too was demolished in 2011.
@IceBotYT 3 жыл бұрын
This dude is still hearting comments even though this video is 5 years old. Respect.
@elijahvincent985 3 жыл бұрын
I have a phobia of modern fire alarms because of the painful high-pitched quality. This is one I definitely would have preferred to hear having fire drills back in my old school days. Lower-pitched, sounded friendlier on the ears, still had urgency.
@daeone1514 5 жыл бұрын
new schools should bring these fire alarms back.
@pockydemon2741 6 жыл бұрын
This is a beautiful example of old tech. Love it!! Neater than the ones today
@craigpitman7593
Who made the trouble bell down on the farm? Autocall made the trouble bell down on the farm! Who them? Yes them! Couldn’t be! Then who?
@firealarm2903_ 4 жыл бұрын
Fire alarms don't sound good like that anymore lol
@iimepad4606 2 жыл бұрын
The high school I'm having my transition program at was built in 1956, it makes me wonder what kind of fire alarm systems they had back then or if some parts of the original systems remain in the basement. They just have new alarms now that sound like police sirens and it talks too, that's lame compared to this old tech with unique mechanisms inside.
@sharonbradford4494
Dude, imagine one of those 4030 horns was installed on a railroad crossing
@lukep4339 Жыл бұрын
These old systems are far superior then the new plastic junk we have today. While newer alarms kindly ask me to leave, these scream "GET THE H*LL OUT!"
@SRCVintageElectronics 8 жыл бұрын
Wow, my grandma was born in 1922. It's sad that this building also had to be demolished. It looked beautiful even for its age
@audiodood 3 жыл бұрын
Thats a very beautiful system. Also those 4030 horns resonate very well in the halls
@kayguerard7358 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing, and thank you for rescuing part of this old system for a fire alarm museum!
@ppal19812 Жыл бұрын
We had these horns in my grammar school I attended in 1985 - 1992. Used to scare the hell out of me.
@Creeperboy099 4 жыл бұрын
My elementary/middle school was built in 1937- perhaps it may have had a pull rod too, but I remember actually seeing some old bells on the walls, and there are a lot of unused electrical things sticking out of the walls.
@Mopsspoof 3 жыл бұрын
That system breaker looks so cool, with the dials and buttons and stuff.
@OldSchoolFireAlarms 7 жыл бұрын
The video you see was shot two months before the school was abated/demolished in 2011. It was then edited and posted on You Tube in January of 2016. Thank you for your question and for watching.
@Kudlaty771 6 жыл бұрын
I cant get enough of this video
@CanadaMapleleaffanvacationinJu 4 жыл бұрын
I like Vintage alarms
@chrisfitzchrisfitz5182 3 жыл бұрын
We had one of these in my grade school- it would sound 5 times between one r…… scared the hell outa me- especially when i was under it when it was set off during a practice drill!!
@jerryalter1950 2 жыл бұрын
We had these fire alarm horns in our elementary school. Boy, did they scare us! These horns scared the living daylights out of us! They sure don't make fire alarms like that anymore. Today's fire alarm control panels are the size of hand held transistor radios and contain a microcircuitry handling the same tasks once handled by relays and code motor and code wheel in the big old Autocall fire alarm control panels like the one featured in this video.