Francis Upton
Francis Thomas Upton was a mathematician/physicist who had been one of Thomas Edison’s main partners. Responsible for one of the most important inventions used today he is but not a recognized invention. Upton managed to create a sensor with an alarm that would ring if the temperature of the room would climb. He later called this the “smoke-detector.”
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