Around 1862 this American locksmith introduced a dial-operated combination lock for bank vaults
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The History of Yale and Yale locks  OK. Lock, digital door locks, safes, padlocks, door handles ... In 1862, Yale Jr. introduced the Monitor Bank Lock, marking the transition in bank locks from key locks to dial or combination locks. ... its scope with manually operated chain hoists, battery powered platform trucks and in 1879 a line of padlocks was introduced.
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Free Flashcards about INVENTORS-J - StudyStack  AROUND 1862 THIS AMERICAN LOCKSMITH INTRODUCED A DIAL-OPERATED COMBINATION LOCK FOR BANK VAULTS, YALE. IN 1974 ELI WHITNEY...
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TP-820514-001A * Operating Instructions for the Rotary Wedge-lock ...  The Rotary Wedge-lock Vault Door is manufactured in two models. One model carries the ... Operating Instructions. Introduction ... the door (dual control). Each individual will dial a combination of numbers which will operate one of the locks.
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locksmith & alarm services - ProTech Lock & Alarm  They were large and crude in design; yet their principle of operation was the ... They were simple bolts, made of iron with wards (obstructions) fitted around the keyholes ... The first use of wards (fixed projections in a lock) was introduced by the ... and bank vault locks, operating without keys and known as combination locks.
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LOCKS - History  Locks and keys were known long before the birth of Christ. ... It was operated by a wooden key with pegs or prongs that raised the number of tumblers ... Shown here is an American padlock dating back to the turn-of-the-century. ... into dial face and bank vault locks, operating without keys and known as combination locks.
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Automated Teller Machines - Inventions - HISTORY.com  Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. ... Check back soon or see our FAQs here. ... The automated teller machine, or ATM, is such a complicated piece of technology that ... Many experts believe that the first automated banking machine was the creation of ... a New York City bank to take a few of his automatic-deposit machines.
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New York Was the First City to Dial 9-1-1 for Emergencies | 6sqft  Jul 6, 2015 ... It was first implemented right here in New York City in July of 1968. ... it was only for police calls; it wasn't until 1970 that the three-digit number .... 2016; FEMA finally agrees to update flood-zone maps; Can Tavern on the .... house-boat-3 ..... You Need to Know About Affordable Housing: Applying, Getting In,...
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Robbing Banks: An American History by L.r. Kirchner, Hardcover ...  Oct 21, 2000 ... Robbing Banks, which covers heists from 1831 to the present day, ... but the most sophisticated of these robberies to the local authorities. ... brought to fruition in the new frontier nationthe United States. ... An Englishman named Edward Smith removed $245,000 from a Wall Street bank in March of 1831.
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United States Bullion Depository - Wikipedia  The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building ... As a result, the value of the gold held by the Federal Reserve increased from $4 ... Other than this 1974 event, no member of the public has been allowed inside. .... National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory.
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Elisha Graves Otis - American Society of Mechanical Engineers  This invention revolutionized the elevator and construction industries by making ... He quickly proved his worth by inventing an automatic turner that produced ... By 1852, Otis was living in Yonkers, NY, working for a company that hired him to ... of the hoist platform and the overhead lifting cable," wrote Joseph J. Fucini and...
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'Eureka!' - The Story of Archimedes and the Golden Crown  The story of how Archimedes discovered a method for measuring the volume of an ... The goldsmith did as he had been ordered, and on he appointed day, he .... He based his theory on the Archimedes Principle, and on Archimedes' work on levers. .... They included compound pulley systems, a planetarium showing the...
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The Invention of the Elevator Brake Made Skyscrapers Possible ...  Elisha Graves Otis didn't invent the elevator, he invented something perhaps more ... There he worked as a master mechanic in the bedstead factory of O. Tingley ... during that time invented and put into use a railway safety brake, which could be ... From ancient times through the Middle Ages, and into the 13th century, man...
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Late Nineteenth Century Inventors and Inventions - Zoom School  The dry cell battery was developed in the 1870s-1870s by Georges .... Otis demonstrated how safe his elevator was by cutting the elevator's cable ... An escalator is a moving stairway that helps people move easily from floor to floor in building. The escalator was invented by the American inventor Jesse W. Reno in 1891.
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Find in a library : Robbing banks : an American history, 1831-1999  Large shipments of goldand silver fell victim to these thieves of the byways who ... The first recorded bank robbery was actually a burglary committedin New York City. An Englishman named Edward Smith removed$245,000 from a Wall Street ... for hire tobanks, railroads, and, as during the Civil War, the U.S. government.
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Travelers Cheques History - Invention of Travelers Cheques  Fascinating facts about the invention of Travelers Cheques by Marcellus F. Berry in 1891.
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"'A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock ...  Jun 8, 2012 ... If you have a pencil that can be sharpened by any sharpener, you have a .... that gives them pleasure, whereas the merit of the women involve...
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jeopardy/272_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 10. DONE THAT | Burglar alarm seller E.T. Holmes employed the 1st of these in 1877, "plugging in" 6 Boston telephone subscribers | switchboard. right:.
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Sholes, Soule, & Glidden Invent the First Device to Allow the ...  ... Device to Allow the Operator to Write Faster than a Person Writing by Hand (1868) ... The machine, patented on June 23, 1868, resembled "a cross between a ... "Sholes and Soule showed their machine to Carlos Glidden, a lawyer and ... shop working on a mechanical plow, who wondered if the machine could not be...
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Elevator History - Invention of the Elevator - The Great Idea Finder  Mar 26, 2007 ... With his installation of the first safe elevator in 1853 he literally started the ... 1861 receives patent for improvements to hoisting apparatus, safety brake ... Over the centuries, mankind has employed ingenious forms of lifting. .... Elisha Otis inducted 1988 for his invention Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus...
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cryptology | Britannica.com  Aug 17, 2016 ... The fundamentals of codes, ciphers, and authentication ... Probably the most widely known code in use today is the American Standard Code for ..... The best-known digraph substitution cipher is the Playfair, invented by Sir .... In 1918 Gilbert S. Vernam, an engineer for the American Telephone & Telegraph...
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Elisha Graves Otis - American Society of Mechanical Engineers  From 1838 to 1845 Otis lived in Brattleboro, VT, where he constructed a gristmill ... he also found time to invent a railway safety brake that could be controlled by the ... A hoist was required to lift heavy equipment and machinery to the upper floor. ... installed on either side of the elevator shaft, thereby bringing the falling hoist...