Author: United States, Treasury Department
Title: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report of Special Commission of Experts as to Means of Improving Vault.,.
Description: Washington, Government Printing Office, 1894. boards. 22x14cm, 90,(64) pp., A chip to side edges of first two pages has been professionally repaired with glassine paper. Binding stained.. 64pp photoplates.. Later (recent) binder's blind boards. Caption-titled. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report of Special Commission of Experts as to Means of Improving Vault Facilities of the Treasury Department." Includes 64 single-side photoplates of contemporary safes & vaults which experts have opened by detonating explosives, with diagrams detailing their structural weaknesses

Keywords: Bank Vaults, Safes History, Vault Safe, Engineering, Explosives Briggs, Technology, United States, Treasury Banks, Robbery Corliss