PROTECTION
FROM
FIRE AND THIEVES
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
FIRE-ESCAPE AND STEAM FIRE-ENGINE IN ACTION
(From a drawing supplied by the Royal Society for the Protection ofLife from Fire)
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.
ALSO
A COMPLETE LIST OF PATENTS FOR LOCKS AND SAFES
BY
GEORGE HAYTER CHUBB
ASSOC. INST. C.E.
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CAVENDO TUTUS
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LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1875
All rights reserved.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON LENNOX,
M.P.
FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS;
THIS VOLUME IS, BY KIND PERMISSION,
Respectfully Inscribed.
PREFACE.
A SMALL book, embracing such subjects as herein treated of, isnecessarily somewhat disconnected in its character. In endeavouring tobe strictly practical, I fear I have made some portions of the bookuninteresting to the general reader; if so, it must be remembered thatmy chief aim has been to place certain facts before professional andbusiness men, at the same time introducing matter that may be useful toeveryone.
I have to offer my best thanks to Colonel Fraser, Colonel Henderson,Captain Shaw, and other Gentlemen, who have afforded me valuable help.
If the importance of protecting life and property becomes in the leastdegree better understood and appreciated, I shall feel amply repaid forthe time and trouble incurred in the preparation of the book.
57 St. Paul’s Churchyard, London:
January 1875.