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instantly notifies the proper persons long before any material damage can be done and when the flames can be easil controlled. “Small and very simple instruments, very sensitive to changes of temperature, and known as Tasimeter-Ther- mostats or heat detectors, are fastened to the ceiling or other appropriate parts of the building. “ Whenever the temperature in the vicinity of any one these Tasimeter-Thermostats reaches the operating degree, the electric circuit is instantly completed. Right here it is that my telephonic transmitters get in their fine work. “Each transmitter is provided with Phonographic Cylin- ders containing a set of words precisely describing the location of the fire, and when the temperature reaches a certain point, the thermostats automatically switch the Phonographs in front of the transmitters, and set them at work unreeling the telltale words which are heard over the wire at the fire engine station, informing the firemen where they should go. “A fire alarm is useless if it isn’t prompt. Every second saved at the beginning of a fire saves hours of fighting later on. My combined Tasimeter-Thermostat-Phonograph- Telephone act* instantly, informs immediately and de- finitely and saves the seconds that are so precious at the start of a conflagration. “Then again my combination don’t send in any false darms, owing to my improved Tasimeter-Thermostat. It is a well known fact, with the existing so called Auto- matic Alarms, that Fire Department Authorities are pre- judiced against alarms recorded by them. They respond to such alarms with less alacrity than they otherwise