When Saheb had left the city, the city's history remained a sign of their innovative power. Hundreds of years old still alive memories of old Calcutta For example, this fire alarms in the Assembly. In 1910, when this fire alarm was created, Captain Bernard Anson Westbrook

There was no telephone in the house. Mobile phones are far away. If there is a fire, then how will you know the news? If anyone gives a report to the firefighting office, the fire will become scary. Muskil seated Westbrook Saheb. He used to fire the alarm in the city of Kolkata on the whole of Calcutta.

The fire alarm technology was quite well. A round of four-foot high pillar was covered with a round glass. A handle inside her. A dynamo that was attached to the handle. A lamp that was attached to the dynamo at the nearby fire station office. If there was a fire, the glass would be broken and the handle was rotated. Then there was a fire in the nearby fire office, Immediately where fire seemed to fire fireworks staff In 1910, Westbrook Sahib placed 150 such fire alarms in Kolkata.

By the time the system has lost one of its fire alarm pills from Calcutta. However, there are two pillars that have remained. One is found in the area of ​​Haiduya. But his turn is quite bad. The pillar remains only, there is no equipment inside. The other is reserved in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The fire alarms with great care.

It would be astonishing, in that era, firefighters could identify the place of fire in only 60 seconds.