Wednesday 22 April 2015

In 1851, A Man Picked Two Unpickable Locks And Changed Security Forever

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The pursuit of lock picking is as old as the lock, which is itself as old as civilization. But in the entire history of the world, there was only one brief moment, lasting about 70 years, where you could put something under lock and key - a chest, a safe, your home - and have complete, unwavering certainty that no intruder could get to it.

But everything changed in the 1770s with the arrival of an inventor named Joseph Bramah to the English locksmithing scene. Joseph Bramah was a polymath engineer who would come to be known as one of the fathers of pneumatic power.

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