Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — Science and Safe Cracking. [ARTICLE]

Science and Safe Cracking.

To one who has seen a modern s&fe, with Its smooth surface of hardened steel, such as offers an impenetrable front to the shot of a battleship, it seems Impossible that any burglar could force it, and yet we read of safes being cracked often enough. The modern burglar has modern methods. He uses thermite, which is ignited upon the steel and burns its way through, or nitroglycerin, which is squirted in- . to the crack of the door and exploded by an electric spark.—New York American.