A Celebration of Fire Protection Engineering

An invitation to Worcester Polytechnic Institute\u27s A Celebration of Fire Protection Engineerin

A Guide to the Duane D. Pearsall Papers

A finding aid for the Duane Pearsall Papers. The digital collection covers the time period from his birth until his death, 1922-2010. Duane Pearsall is best known for developing the battery operated smoke detector for residential use, an accidental invention saving lives since the 1970s. He was instrumental in changing commercial and residential building codes to require smoke detection devices. Since the mid-1970s, thousands of lives saved can be attributed to the most significant lifesaving innovation of the 20th century, the battery powered smoke detector. This collection contains records he kept about his life, his work in fire protection and his work for small business. He was an enlightened capitalist, an early adopter of profit-sharing, hiring women and minorities, and teaching his employees their place in the free-enterprise system known as capitalism

Honorary Doctorate of Science Degree with Citation from WPI presented to Duane D. Pearsall.

An honorary Doctorate of Science degree certificate and citation from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1996 was presented to Duane Pearsall in recognition of his contributions to fire protection

WPI Journal, Summer 2017

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WPI Journal, Fall 2017

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WPI Journal, Fall 2016

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WPI Research, 2017

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WPI Journal, Winter 2017

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WPI Journal, Spring 2017

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WPI Journal, Volume 78, Issue 3, October 1974

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