When America’s founding documents — the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights — were under threat, one company was trusted to protect them: The Mosler Safe Company.

In the shadow of the Cold War and the nuclear age, Mosler built a vault designed to safeguard the Charters of Freedom against bombs, fire, and time itself. This episode of Hardware History Files uncovers the story of how Mosler became the guardian of America’s most important treasures.

🔑 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Mosler engineered a bomb-proof vault for the U.S. Constitution
• Why the Charters of Freedom required Cold War protection
• The legacy of Mosler vaults in American history

If you’re fascinated by safes, vaults, Cold War history, or the protection of America’s Constitution, this story shows how hardware and history collide.

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If you were in the door hardware industry in 1952, you knew the name Lockwood. It stood for prestige, quality, and American industrial might. The Lockwood Hardware Manufacturing Company operated five regional sales offices and six manufacturing plants across the United States. It had furnished buildings all over the world: apartments, hotels, hospitals, colleges, embassies, and federal facilities.

Its products were used in high-security government sites, including post offices, military installations, and even the U.S. Embassy in Havana. And perhaps most impressively, Lockwood hardware was installed in two of the most high-profile projects of the mid-century: the Atomic Energy Plant in Paducah, Kentucky—at the time, the largest contract ever awarded by the U.S. government—and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

At the company’s 1952 sales convention, there was a sense of unstoppable momentum. Lockwood had survived the Great Depression, pivoted to war production during WWII, and emerged in the postwar boom stronger than ever. Yet today, more than seventy years later, the Lockwood name is a ghost in the American hardware industry. So, what happened?
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Across the world, hundreds of millions of houses are broken into on a regular basis during the month of December, with most occurring just on one particular night. The means of how these family safe havens are violated remain the subject of much speculation. Some people believe it’s an open secret, while others have a more radical take. What’s clear is that no locking mechanism created in over a thousand years can keep the perpetrator out of our homes, even if we know exactly what night he’s coming.

Is this some annual occurrence that society has became blind to over the years? Or is this a multi-national conspiracy to invade our homes? Could it be a coordinated attack based on good intentions?

Stay tuned as we investigate how no door hardware has been able to keep out the most well-known secret of the holidays!
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