Media Coverage

Security Management: Fuming Over Unplanned Reaction - March 2004

Mike Halligan, associate director of environmental health and safety at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, knew that the campus fire-safety program had to be reviewed after two fires occurred in wet chemistry laboratories. One fire was caused by an unplanned reaction when two compounds were mixed together in a small beaker. This fire was contained by a fume hood and by the graduate student who used a nearby fire extinguisher to put out the flames. The damage was minimal because the use of the fire extinguisher prevented the fire from spreading to other materials within the fume hood.

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Boston Globe: Rethinking the everyday - October 13, 2003

Many of the patents tenaciously won by Massachusetts inventors are for ordinary but nevertheless important objects

Eight years ago, Brendan McSheffrey had his billion-dollar brainstorm. This month, his mom and dad are finally bringing Brendan's invention to market, one of the biggest innovations in decades to come to a ubiquitous piece of technology few people ever think about: fire extinguisher pressure gauges.

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Government Security - August 2003

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