e/Edwin Holmes (inventor)

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has glosseng: Edwin Holmes was an American inventor. He is credited with inventing the burglar alarm, at his factory in Boston, Massachusetts, having begun to sell them in 1858. His son Edwin T. Holmes I took over the company after his death. The son wrote his biography, called A Wonderful Fifty Years. Mr. Edwin Holmes got the patent rights of Pope’s invention and moved his business to New York in search of new and bigger market for the home alarm systems. But initially, people were skeptical about using electricity for alarms.
lexicalizationeng: Edwin Holmes
instance of(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
alarm, alert, alarum, warning signal

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