In Popular Culture
- In 1959, Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert J. Quinn ordered his fire chief to sound the city's civil defense alert sirens (all Thunderbolts at the time) at the moment the White Sox won the pennant, prompting many unaware citizens to be alarmed of an air raid or nuclear attack.
- The siren was featured in many Civil Defense films including one from the early 1950s titled Let's Face It (a close up of a single tone 1000 painted black and yellow sounding the alert signal with an added in sound effect).
- In 2011, the History Channel show American Restoration featured a restoration of a Thunderbolt 1000T for a museum in Nevada.
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