Protection from Fire and Thieves

"Protection from Fire and Thieves" is a treatise on the different technologies of the 19th century designed to keep out fire and the robber from accessing valuables. It gives in avid description the construction of locks, safes, strong-rooms, and fireproof buildings; burglary, and the means of preventing it. The book also spans the topic of fire, its detection, prevention, and extinction. Author George Hayter Chubb draws from his experience as a designer of locks and his ownership of several patents to look at the emerging trends of his day, giving what he sees as the solutions to the increasing sophistication of the methods employed by thieves, for those organisations that have high security requirements.