- Author
- McGehan, F. P.
- Title
- Life-Saving Investments: Smoke Detectors for the Home.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards), Vol. 60, No. 4, 6-8 pgs., April 1976 <b>AND</b> Fire, Vol. 69, No. 855, 184-185 pgs., September 1976.,
- Keywords
- smoke detectors
- Abstract
- These two stories illustrate dramatically what countless Americans have been discovering--that the purchase of a relatively inexpensive detector may save their homes--and lives--in the event of a fire. Smoke detector sales reached 50,000 when they came on the market in 1971.