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

Author : United States Treasury Department
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243089789
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury written by United States Treasury Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 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 As a general rule, the most vulnerable part of the structure is the door and its fastenings and the ad jacent parts of the walls. The door is commonly made thicker, often much thicker than the walls of the chamber elsewhere, and it is re'enforced, and its locking and bolting systems are made effective for their purpose by the most ingenious devices to be found in the whole range of mechanics. It is here, in fact, that the ingenuity of the modern mechanic is mainly demanded and principally displayed. The door of the safe or vault is constructed, like the walls of the chamber itself, of alternate layers of soft and ductile, and hard and brittle, steel. The only opening through it is for a small steel spindle, also made Of combined hard and soft material, Often twisted together and welded into a single piece; and even this small hole, plugged as it is by a piece extremely difficult to attack or remove, is now Often omitted, and the purpose of the spindle, that of moving the bolts when released by the lock, is accomplished by an automatic system of mechanism, set in operation at the desired hour by means of a time lock, having a clock movement capable Of determining the pre cise moment at which this action shall take place, and as previously arranged by the officer in charge of the safe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.