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- Title: On the Development and Distribution of Primitive Locks and Keys (Illustrated)
- Author : Augustus Pitt-Rivers
- Release Date : January 23, 2013
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1785 KB
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“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.”