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First plant of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, started by Linus Yale Jr. and Henry R. Towne Old Yale Lock Shop, Newport, New York, first location of Linus Sr.'s bank lock shop Linus Yale (April 27, 1797 – August 8, 1858) was an American businessman, inventor, metalsmith, and politician.
The Crystal Palace Exhibition, where Hobbs, designer of the Protector lock, became the first person to pick the supposedly "unpickable" Chubb detector lock.. The Protector lock (also called the "moveable lock") was an early 1850s lock design by the leading American locksmith Alfred Charles Hobbs, the first man to pick the six-levered Chubb detector lock, at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851.
In March 1844, Philip Corbin began working for the Matteson, Russell & Erwin Company (later Russell & Erwin). In the fall of 1844, Corbin worked for Henry Andrews, who had secured a contract to make locks for North & Stanley. At the Henry Andrews Company, Corbin apprenticed and learned the art of lock making.
At the beginning of every year since the 1950s, New York's old guard has scurried dutifully to the Park Avenue Armory for a smattering of some of the finest antiques on this side of the Atlantic.
The museum houses one of the largest collections of bank and vault locks in the world, with more than 370 locks, keys and tools dating from 4000 BC to the modern 20th-century. Egyptian wooden-pin locks, Chinese padlocks , American time locks , etc., are all displayed in lighted glass cases on the second floor of the General Society.
10. 20th Century Tourist Maps Michael’s Early 20th-century tourist maps featuring national parks or famous cities and routes can sell for over a hundred dollars thanks to their nostalgic charm.
Hobbs had brought with him his boss's (Robert Newell) Parautoptic lock, designed to compete with, and surpass, the locks available at the time in Britain. [7] He was the first one to pick Bramah's lock and the Chubb detector lock at the Great Exhibition of 1851 , and so forced lock manufacturers to improve their designs.
In the same year he started the Bramah Locks company at 124 Piccadilly, London. [1] The locks produced by his company were famed for their resistance to lock picking and tampering, and the company famously had a "challenge lock" displayed in the window of their London shop from 1790, mounted on a board containing the inscription: