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  2. Fire alarm system - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm system is a building system designed to detect, alert occupants, and alert emergency forces of the presence of fire, smoke, ...

  3. Bandung - Wikipedia

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    Bandung [a] is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. [9] Located on the island of Java, Greater Bandung (Bandung Basin Metropolitan Area / BBMA) is third-most populous city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya and the country's second-largest and second most populous metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants.

  4. Depok - Wikipedia

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    There are two possible origins of the name 'Depok'. The first is that it the region was already known as Depok when the land was bought by Cornelis Chastelein, a senior official in the Dutch East India Company in 1696 and that on 18 May 1696, a former VOC officer Cornelis Chastelein bought land with an area of 12.44 km 2, 6.2% the area of today's Depok.

  5. Motion detector - Wikipedia

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    A motion detector attached to an outdoor, automatic light. A motion detector is an electrical device that utilizes a sensor to detect nearby motion (motion detection).Such a device is often integrated as a component of a system that automatically performs a task or alerts a user of motion in an area.

  6. Edwin Holmes (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    The alarm was patented in 1853 by the Reverend Augustus Russell Pope (1819–1858) of Somerville, Massachusetts. [2] [4] Edwin Holmes acquired Pope's patent rights in 1857 for US$1500 [5] and manufactured the device in his factory in Boston, Massachusetts. He began to sell them in 1858.

  7. Depok railway station - Wikipedia

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    Depok Station (DP) [1] is a railway station located in Pancoran Mas, Pancoran Mas, Depok, West Java. This station is commonly known as Depok Lama (Old Depok), to distinguish with Depok Baru (lit. ' New Depok ') Station. The station is one of the oldest station in Jakarta metropolitan area.

  8. Car alarm - Wikipedia

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    An early version of a car alarm for use as a theft deterrent was invented by an unknown prisoner from Denver in 1913. [1] This version was manually armed, and triggered when someone tried to crank the engine. A later alarm inspired by an early version of a remote starter was published in 1916. [2]

  9. Bandung Sea of Fire - Wikipedia

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    During the fires, an Indonesian journalist based in Tasikmalaya recorded the events from a hill in Garut and published an article in the 26 March [34] issue of the Soeara Merdeka newspaper – initially titled Bandoeng Djadi Laoetan Api (Bandung Becomes Sea of Fire), but shortened to Bandoeng Laoetan Api (Bandung Sea of Fire) – the name the ...