Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Alfred Charles Hobbs was an American locksmith and inventor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1812; his father was a carpenter. He married Charlotte F. Nye of Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1835
Alfred Charles Hobbs 1886
Sign on a strong room door.
Great Exhibition
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The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London,
Alfred Charles Hobbs
…already much more than we can teach them." Hobbs went to London as a representative of the New York company of Day & Newell, which was exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Hobbs had brought with him his boss's (Robert Newell) Parautoptic lock, designed to compete with, and surpass, the locks available at the time in…
The Great Exhibition 1851
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851
Paxton's Crystal Palace enclosed full-grown trees in Hyde Park.
The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria by Henry Courtney Selous