US Patent 62,974 · 19 Mar 1867

Spherical burglar-proof safe

by Benjamin Sherwood and Daniel Fitzgerald, New York

Patent drawing of a safe with a fold-down book-case and a section through an iron ball
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Benjamin Sherwood and Daniel Fitzgerald's spherical safe, US patent 62,974 of 1867, sheet 1. Public domain, via Google Patents.

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