There are a lot of firsts in Fireye’s history.

Back in the 1930s, the company was the first to offer industrial/commercial electronic flame-safeguard controls, a photoelectric device designed to detect the presence of an oil flame in less than a second. Fireye also claims to be the first company to develop infrared scanners to monitor both gas and oil flames; the first to develop a scanner that discriminated between signals from adjacent burners; and the first to create a completely solid-state programming control.