smoke-detector

plural smoke-detectors

1. alternativeAlternative form of smoke detector.

   Leading Fireman McCarthy stressed the importance of fitting smoke-detectors wherever possible.

   1988 August 3, “Shut that door – plea”, in Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3

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   W. O. Blaze patented a cleaner and smoke-detector, and Mr. Goodnight has to his credit a fire-extinguisher.

   1900 May 11, “Legal Briefs”, in Mercersburg Journal, volume LV, number 52, Mercersburg, Pa.: Journal Publishing Company, →OCLC, page [4], column 2

   Meanwhile at the Conference Centre three fire-engines have screamed up. Not, for once, a student smoking in a bedroom: this time a cloud of thunderflies has chosen to swarm on the pearly-pink just-warm globe of a smoke-detector.

   1987, Fleur Adcock, “Wildlife”, in Gillian Clarke, editor, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1987/88, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN

   A third display showed how quickly a three-piece suite could go up in flames, which was designed by the fire brigade to highlight the benefits of fitting smoke-detectors.

   1994 June 17, “The little red engine”, in Tunbridge Wells Courier (Kent & Sussex Courier Series), Tunbridge Wells, Kent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6

   Without early warning of impending regulations and trigger points there is a danger that the chaos around the regulations on interlinked smoke-detectors could be repeated.

   2022, Stuart Paton, Alison Payne, “Clear timeline of regulation for phasing out gas in homes”, in Powering Ahead: Decarbonising Scotland’s Energy, Edinburgh: Reform Scotland, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2022, page 22