Genesis Edwards Siren Flasher Equipment

Founded in 1872 by Robert Edwards and David Rousseau, the Edwards Company has a rich history of success.

1872- Edwards and Company was founded by Robert Edwards and David Rousseau to discover the new "Electric" phenomenon and to manufacture, sell and install battery-powered gas-fitting igniters. Among the company's first customers is a New York City church where the sextons previously climbed a 100-meter ladder to the light gas armatures above the rows.
1873 Rousseau withdraws from the partnership and is replaced by Adam Lungen. They invented and developed an electric doorbell and a burglar alarm.
1880 - The Edwards Company leaves the basement of the Lungen family's jewelery shop, moves into a three-story facility, and begins to manufacture wooden canals and enclosures for burglar alarms.
1881 - Robert Edwards receives his first patent for an electric bell. Other patents quickly followed: a retractable warning device (1882); an electric gas burner lighter (1883) for push button operation; and an electric door opener (1884).
1884 - Edwards displayed its products at the first electricity fair in the United States. Held in Philadelphia, was called the "Electricity Exhibition, National Electricians Conference".
1886 - Alongside burglar alarms and fixture igniters, the Edwards catalog lists electrically wound clocks, program systems, and coils for the first time.
1896 - Edwards stopped installing electrical devices and limited his activities to the design and manufacture of signaling, communication, and protection equipment.
1900 - Horizontally operated piston bell designed. The basic design is used for today's Edwards AdaptaBel.
1901- First national distributor of "household electrical appliances" appointed by Edwards Company.
1903 - The New York Stock Exchange bell was set to initiate the start and end of each day trading.
1912 - Edwards car call is introduced, reporting all-weather conditions for department stores.
1915 - Bronze Medal of Honor for electrical products awarded to Edwards at the Panama-Pacific Fair, San Francisco, CA.
1917 - Waterproof bells and submarine detection devices made for the Navy, a special telegraph apparatus developed for the Signal Corps.
1927- The Holland Tunnel is opened with Edwards emergency signaling installed on 2-mile twin tubes. Electrical devices ordered from Edwards for the White House.
1929 - Montreal Curb Exchange orders "Silent Call" alerts. Edwards & Company of Canada is formed.
1935 - Lungen buzz vibrating probe at the bottom of the world's deepest oil well 11,300 feet below the earth's surface. Edwards guard tour, sprinkler and fire alarm system installed at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
1936 - New glass-breaking fire stations are introduced to replace the hammer and chain types.
1938- Boeing Aircraft Co. Edwards signaling devices and signaling systems for double-deck flying clipper ships.
1941 - The world's largest car ferry, Midland City leaves Michigan waterways equipped with Edwards waterproof signals. Budd Co. has equipped its latest "Silver Meteor" trains with Edwards reporters.
1945- Edwards, Fifth Army-Navy E.
1948 - Edwards-made fire alarms are installed on SS President Cleveland and SS President Wilson, new cruise ships traveling around the world. The James H. McGraw Award, Manufacturer Medal of the Year, was presented to RS Edwards.
1950- New Edwards factory opens in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
1951- Teardrop fire alarm station introduced: Called "a model of impeccable simplicity" by the Associated Press.
1956 - Production facilities for distributor products transferred to the new Pittsfield, Maine plant.
1961 - An audiovisual nurse call with patient privacy feature shown at the American Hospital Association Exposition, Atlantic City, NJ.
1962 - Edwards Corporation becomes a business unit of General Signal Corporation.
1964- Edwards fire alarm system was determined for 52-storey Vertical Assembly Building in Cape Kennedy, the largest structure in the world.
1965- Edwards systems installed in the Visual Arts Museum designed by LeCorbusier for the Harvard University campus.
1966 - Manitoba, the largest municipal public system in Canada designed and established by Edwards, police and fire control centers for the city of Winnipeg.
1967 - Edwards supplies 77 fire alarm systems to Expo '67, Montreal.
1971- JFK Performing Arts Center was equipped with Edwards fire alarm system.
1973 - Edwards buys Electrons, Inc., maker of Cat. 280 series heat detector.
1976 - Edwards introduces a new ionization smoke detector.
1979- Edwards introduces new Greenline Series Fire Alarm Chimes.
1981- Edwards incorporates the latest microprocessor technology into the next generation of "programmable" signals with the launch of the Adaptatone product line.
1982 - Edwards begins a planned expansion of hazardous audio and visual signals that will result in the most up-to-date and complete line in the industry.
1984 - The first Edwards piezo-electric signals are introduced, demonstrating the adoption of the latest technology in light duty signaling.
1985 - Edwards begins expanding a planned industrial flasher and pointer products that will result in the highest quality and most complete line in the industry today.
1986 - A new, state-of-the-art photoelectric smoke detector is introduced by Edwards.
1994- Edwards buys the signaling product line from Thomas Industries' Benjamin Division. These new products, previously produced in Sparta, TN, are consolidated at the Pittsfield, Maine plant.
1994- Edwards brought its highly advanced, multi-element sensor technology to the "Commercial" fire alarm market. State-of-the-art production processes have been established in the Pittsfield factory to support the production of these products.
1998 - Edwards offers a new range of stackable visual signals, LED blinking, and steady visual signals and flashes. The new Triliptical stacklite is designed according to customer input.
2005 - Edwards was acquired by General Electric. Edwards merged with Kalatel, Sentrol and EST businesses to become part of GE Security. The company was well placed to be an international leader in video, fire and access control.
2010 - GE Security was acquired by United Technologies Corporation. Edwards Signaling has become part of the Detection and Alert business under UTC Fire & Security.
Today. . . With headquarters in Farmington, CT, manufacturing in Pittsfield, ME, distribution in Portland, TN, and Sales and Service locations around the world, it seems like a very long road to the basement of Lungen's jewelery store. Yet many of the different products Edwards manufactures today are direct descendants of gas armature igniters, electric bells, and program systems that went into the design and construction of structures more than a century ago.

860 Series

Electronic Horn / Flasher

Horn Xenon flash light source Flash speed 60 fpm at 1 meter 100 dB / 90 dB at 10 ft

Nexus 105 AC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon beacon Quarter turn fittings for ease of installation 113dB at 1 meter / 103dB at 10ft (max); 105dB at 1 ...

Nexus 105 DC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Three alarm stages Quarter turn fittings for ease of installation Low inrush current

Nexus 110 AC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Low voltage AC variant Three alarm stages Quarter turn fasteners for ease of installation.

Nexus 110 DC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Three alarm stages Quarter turn fittings for ease of installation Low inrush current (LED ...

Nexus 120 AC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon beacon Three alarm stages Quarter turn fasteners for ease of installation 120dB at 1 meter / 110dB at 10ft. (max.) ..

Nexus 120 DC

Klaxon Electronic Siren Flashlights - Xenon or LED Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Three alarm stages Quarter turn fasteners 120dB at 1 meter / 110dB for ease of installation.

Nexus 105 AC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Light

5J Xenon beacon Quarter turn fittings for ease of installation 113dB at 1 meter / 103dB at 10ft (max); 105dB at 1 ...

Nexus 110 AC

Klaxon Electronic Tone Siren Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Low voltage AC variant Three alarm stages Quarter turn fasteners for ease of installation ...

Nexus 120 DC

Klaxon Electronic Siren Flashlights - Xenon or LED Flasher

5J Xenon or high efficiency LED Three alarm stages Quarter turn fasteners for ease of installation 120dB at 1 meter / 110dB ...

95 Series

Horn-type 85 dB Audible / Visual Flasher AdaptaBeacon Light Duty Strobe Weatherproof Optically designed fresnel lens Built-in, base-mounted horn - 85 dB at 3.05 m (10 feet) Immunity ...

51SIN Series

Horn PLC Compatible AdaptaBeacon® Fixed Outdoor Lights Weatherproof Built-in base mounted horn 85 dB at 10 feet (3,05 m) Cast base, ...

51 Series

Horn PLC Compatible AdaptaBeacon Flashing Light Flasher

Weatherproof Built-in base mounted horn of 85 dB at 10 feet (3.05 m) Cast base,

108 Series

Multiple Status LED

3 LED visual signals in one compact housing Option to add an additional module for a fourth light using one.

G1R-HDVM-E Genesis Series Electronic Sounder-Beacon, Red, EN54-23 Approved
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G1R-VM-E Genesis Series Electronic Flasher, Red, EN54-23 Approved
UTC Edwards

G1R-HD-E Genesis Series Electronic Siren, Red
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G1RB-MP Genesis Series Surface Mount Box for Sounders / Beacons, Red
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