Yesterday's News: Thursday, Nov. 5, 1959: A homemade burglar alarm

OK, I'm showing my age, but I identify with this newspaper article about burglars caught by a burglar alarm made with a rotary-dial phone, a cork, and string.

C'mon, all you other middle-aged (and older) folks. Before you click here, how would you have made a burglar alarm using a phone like we grew up with?

You can do it. You watched all those television shows encouraging ingenuity that I did... You've lived through a make-it-yourself craze or two...