CHAPTER XXVII.

SAFES AND LOCKS.

Safes, how Constructed before this Century.--Classification.-- Century Starts out to Make Safes Fireproof.--Scott in 1801.-- Marr, 1834.--Result of Great Fire in New York, 1835.--Wilder’s and Herring’s Safes.--Burglar-proof Safes, 1835.--Chubb, Newton, Thompson, Hall, Marvin and Others.--Electricity.--Seal Locks from 1815.--Locks of Various Kinds in Ancient Days.--Of Ponderous Size.--Key of the House of David.--Lock of Penelope’s House.--Locks of the Middle Ages.--Letter Locks of the Dutch, 1650.--Carew’s Verse.--Eighteenth Century Locks.--Tumblers.-- Joseph Bramah’s Locks.--Combination, Permutation and Time Locks.--Yale Locks.--Modern Locks Invented for Special Uses.-- Master or Secondary Key Locks.--Value of Simple, Cheap, Effective Locks.--Mail Locks and Others.--Greater General Security for Property of all Kinds now Obtained. 420