the purpose of a sprinkler system is fire protection.
what is the purpose of a sprinkler system?
fire protection
from 1852 to 1885, perforated pipe systems were used in textile mills throughout new england as a means of fire protection. however, they were not automatic systems, they did not turn on by themselves. inventors first began experimenting with automatic sprinklers around 1860. the first automatic sprinkler system was patented by philip w. pratt of abington, ma, in 1872. henry s. parmalee of new haven, connecticut is considered the inventor of the first practical automatic sprinkler head. parmalee improved upon the pratt patent and created a better sprinkler system. in 1874, he installed his fire sprinkler system into the piano factory that he owned.
fire sprinkler system
the blaze started as a fire on a workbench in a piano shop, although city fire marshals never determined the exact cause. city investigators found antares had not fixed the sprinkler system, although it knew the system was broken when it bought the building in october 2005 from heyman properties of westport. to fix it would have required cutting off the heat in the building as a new heating system was installed, and antares was waiting until later in the spring or summer for that, bruce macleod, operations chief at antares, had said, according to "the advocate", stamford's daily newspaper. heyman officials knew of the sprinkler system problems "and did nothing to fix them for years, the city's chief fire marshal said in april," "the advocate" reported. the sprinkler system had broken in the 1990s, when heat was turned off in vacant parts of the building, causing water in the sprinkler system to freeze, cracking the pipes.
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