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The untold story of one of the earliest lockmaking families in America. In discussing the early history of lock manufacturing in America, we necessarily focus on Hobbs, Yale, Sargent and a very few others. These were the men who advanced the art and paved the way to the future …

The patent office fire of 1836 wasn't a complete loss. In the years following the disaster many patents were recovered in some form or another. The lock patents specifically had only a handful of documents recovered, but those partial records are giving this project a great head …

It seems very appropriate to kick off this blog with an overview of one of the earliest finds I made when I first turned my attention to the history of security. While doing some fairly broad investigation of the aftermath of the Great Lock Controversy of 1851 I came across an …