On the Development and Distribution of Primitive Locks and Keys (Illustrated)

by Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Amanda Lee (Editor)

Overview

• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• “It is noteworthy, however, that the earliest vestiges of apparatus connected with door fastenings in metal, that are discovered, consist of keys, which leads to the inference that the locks themselves may have been made of wood, and have therefore perished. But we have survivals of primitive wooden locks in use at the present time in different countries, which show us, with great probability, the uses to which the keys were put, and it is to these that we must turn in any attempt to trace back the history of the mechanism from the commencement.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149021208
Publisher:	Five Star Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	11/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB