A valuable invention :
We were recently invited to see Ephriam Smith’s latest invention, which is designed to be used in connection with the alarm of fire. Each member of the fire company is provided with a bed that has a powerful spring, which is set upon retiring, and when an alarm of fire is sounded, an electric current free the spring, which throws the sleeper out on the floor, and at the same time opens up a shower bath that effectually drenches him.
Exactly two minutes afterward, a post revolves, in which a number of cowhides are attached that finish the awakening process if the spring and bath have failed to do this.
Mr. Smith is to be congratulated on his ingenuity, and it is believed his invention fills a long felt want, and will be extensively used where it has been most impossible to awake the fire companies.
-- Ligonier Echo
~ Quoted from the Jeannette Dispatch, 17-May-1889
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