--- title: "Who invented the Burglar Alarm?" description: "Who invented the Burglar Alarm?" author: "Harsh Srivastava" published: 2018-08-30 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49158/who-invented-the-burglar-alarm category: "innovation, discovery and technology" tags: ["innovation, discovery and technology"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Who invented the Burglar Alarm? Who invented the Burglar Alarm? ## Answers ### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL **The first ‘[Burglar Alarm](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49003/what-year-was-burglar-alarm-invented-and-how)’ was invented by ‘Reverend Augustus Russell Pope’ and patented the device in the year 1853.** Russell Pope was from Somerville, [Massachusetts](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34881/which-american-president-was-responsible-for-drafting-the-massachusetts-constitution). ![Who invented the Burglar Alarm?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/394bf0dd-a506-4eed-b587-a27c70076264/images/a77ac2e3-2f86-41f8-822c-204861f9c3a4.jpeg)\ Later, **in the year 1857, Popes’ [patent](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40064/which-scientist-got-a-record-of-patents-for-his-discoveries) rights were acquired by ‘Edwin T. Holmes’ for US$1500**. He bought the patent right of the Burglar Device to sell the product commercially and manufactured the device in his factory at [Boston](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43380/how-did-colonial-leaders-use-the-boston-massacre-as-propaganda), Massachusetts. After that, he started the selling of the product in the year 1858. In the initial phase, people were not so confident to use the product with [electricity](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34947/who-is-said-to-have-discovered-electricity-when-his-kite-was-struck-by-lightning), so the business didn’t do well in the city. Therefore, he searched for the new market to sell his product, in this process he shifted his business to [New York](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42770/what-did-benedict-arnold-offer-to-the-british-general-clinton-in-new-york-in-exchange-for-money-in-1779) in the year 1859. The city was at that time considered as the place where all the burglars from the country made their homes. And his initiative got successful, as within a short period of time i.e. by the end of the **year 1866 he installed about 1,200 home alarms in the city**. This made the business successful in the city. Then he tried his hand in other cities as well by the help from his son. **Their second city to establish this venture was Boston**. In **1878, Edwin Holmes became the [President](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51400/who-became-president-after-franklin-roosevelt-died) of the ‘Bell Phone Company’** which was newly established at that time. In spite of that, **after 2 years, he sold his interests in US$100,000** whereas, he kept the rights to use the [telephone](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49202/who-invented-the-telephone) line of the company for easing the work of his [Alarm System](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2537/alarmmanager-fire-on-every-time-in-android). Then in 1905, the ‘American Telephone and Telegraph Company’ occupied the Holmes Burglar System business. Which ease the peoples work by making an [emergency](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32059/in-which-year-the-state-of-emergency-in-india-was-deeclared) phone call to contact with [Police](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/91/indian-police-needs-a-major-transformation) and Fire Fighting Personnel. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49158/who-invented-the-burglar-alarm Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.