Protection from Fire and Thieves / Including the construction of locks, safes, strong-rooms, and fireproof buildings; burglary, and the means of preventing it; fire, its detection, prevention, and extinction; etc.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fire-Escape and Steam Fire-Engine in action	Frontispiece
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Master-Key of Dublin Exhibition, 1865	4
Ornamental Key-handles	6
Ornamental Key	9
Hopkinson’s Patent Window-Fastener	17
Chubb’s Patent Diagonal Safe; action of bolts	33
” ” ” corner section	34
Chubb’s New Patent Safe, 1874, corner section	35
” ” ” elevation	facing 36
Chubb’s Patent Drill-Preventive; hole made by cutter	38
” ” ” cutter used for do	39
” ” ” system as applied	39
” ” ” cutter destroyed by	40
Reward Label for recovery of Lost Keys	42
Chubb’s Gunpowder-proof Lock for Safes	53
Strong-Room Doors, method of fixing	61
Strong-Room, plan of	64
” section of	65
Dennett’s Fireproof Construction; treatment of columns	79
” ” ” sections of arches	86, 87, 88
” ” ” section of vaulted roof	90
Smoke Respirator	108
Sinclair’s Fire-Exterminator	119
Merryweather’s Steam Fire-Engine	124
” ” ” sections of boiler	125
Shand, Mason & Co.’s Steam Fire-Engine	127
” ” ” sections of boiler	128, 129
Fireproof Warehouse, plan and section	facing 138, 139

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