Alfred Charles Hobbs

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Alfred Charles Hobbs (1812–1891) was a famous American lockpicker. He was the first one to pick Bramah's lock and the Chubb detector lock at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and forced the lock manufacturers to improve their designs. Afterwards he started his own successful lock factory that was later bought by Chubb Safes in 1954.

[edit] Publications

  • Locks and Safes: The Construction of Locks. Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 (revised 1868).

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