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Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o More recent vessels of water to give off steam during a fire, the use of non- improve-conducting material between the plates of the door and the door- ments-casing, and a wall made in layers, thus, — a wooden inner casing, a layer offelt, a metallic lining, a layer of cement, a water-chamber, a layer of cement,and an external metallic casing. The safes made within the last ten yearshave been extremely serviceable. In recent great fires in Boston, Chicago,and New York, they have repeatedly brought their contents through unscathed,though hidden in the burning ruins of buildings for two or three days. The 284 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY industry has now become very large. Factories have been started in Chicago,Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and elsewhere. Safes are manufactured atan average cost of three hundred dollars, and, having been thus popularized,are purchased in immense numbers. None have ever been imported, exceptthe few strong-boxes brought from France about 1820: on the contrary,
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HERRING BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE. many are now being exported, especially to South America, France, andGermany. To be fire-proof is not the only quality of a good safe, nor the only thingwhich renders it in such universal demand. No one wants a safe nowBurglar- unless it is at the same time burglar-proof. The first decided stepproof locks. jn lrie direction of a box which would defy the adroit thief,whose resources of drills, files, saws, gunpowder, sledge-hammers, wedges,blow-pipes for softening steel, &c, are so varied, was taken by Mr. Lillie of OF THE UNITED STATES. 2S5 Troy, N.Y., who was Herrings early competitor. Mr. Lillie employed thickslabs of chilled cast-iron, pouring cast-iron over wrought-iron Limesribs in their construction. Safes of this style were largely used inventlon-by banks both for their large vaults and the inner strong-box, which constitutedonly a single feature of the furniture of its interior. Lillies chilled iron is stilllargely used; but it has been penetrat

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