Alfred Charles Hobbs

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Alfred Charles Hobbs (born October 7, 1812 in Boston , † November 6, 1891 in Bridgeport , Connecticut ) was a famous American locksmith and the first to create a Bramah lock (1851 at the Great Exposition in London , 67 years after the Invention of the lock). He also invented the Hobbs opening process, among other things .

AC Hobbs came to England from New York City in 1851 as a salesman for Day & Newell . He already had a good re-closing repertoire and often used this as a sales technique. He managed to open the two most famous and safest locks of the time: the Bramah lock and the Chubb-Detector lock. With the prize money of 200 guineas for the opening of the Bramah Castle and the fame he had gained, he founded a lock company under the name Hobbs and Co. in Cheapside in the City of London . During this time he also invented the Protector lock .

Hobbs left England around 1862 and returned to America. He sold his company to Thomas Hart, who turned it into Hobbs Hart and Co Ltd. renamed. In 1954 it was bought by Chubb Safes .

Hobbs died in 1891.

Works

  • The Construction of Locks , Saifer, West Orange, NJ around 1980 (Repr. Of the London 1868 edition)

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personal data
SURNAME Hobbs, Alfred Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobbs, AC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American catcher, lockpicker
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1891
Place of death Bridgeport , Connecticut