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Title: The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClung, David Waddle, 1831- (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Hamilton, Ohio (Cincinnati, The Lawrence printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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splendid factory was built at Hamilton, occupyingten acres and having a capacity to work six hundred men and turn out fittyto sixty safes per day, in addition to an immense amount of the most moderncharacter of burglar-proof vault work, safe deposit work, etc. etc. In 1891 the firm was changed to a corporation under the name of TheMacneale & Urban Safe & Lock Co. H. Urban President, Neil Macneale Secy and Treas. The history of this concern is almost the history of the art of safe-mak-ing. About 1855 the important change was made from plaster to cementcomposition as the fire resisting material for the filHng for fire proof safes.The conflict between the Safemaker and the burglar came on.In the earlier years two quarter-inch iron plates with a quarter inchhard steel plate between them, giving a wall three-fourths of an inch thickwas considered the acme of burglar-proof construction. Later the thicknessof plates and the number of plates was increased and the material was radi j k
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THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 295; cally changed. About 1866 the laminated construction came in, each platebeing composed of alternate layers of iron and steel welded together. Mac-neale & Urban have at all times been with the advance guard in the marchof improvements, and the burglar-proof work constructed by them todaywith thick walls of malacent steel would dumbfound the older safe-makers and safe-breakers. The older safes of the best construction were locked with key locks andgreat was the ingenuity expended in the contrivance of these locks and inthe contrivance of means for picking them. The crown jewels of Englandwere guarded by the celebrated Chubbs locks and the great Bramah, he ofhydraulic-press fame, had invented the celebrated Bramah lock, and foryears there had hung in his window in London one of his locks with an at-tached document offering two hundred guineas for the instrument thatwould open it. Chubbs locks and Bramah locks were considered unpick-able

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