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The Construction of Locks

by A. C. Hobbs

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  1. 1Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Advertisement
  4. 4Epigraph — Chapter I — On Locks and Lock-Literature
  5. 5Chapter II — Ancient Locks: Grecian, Roman, Egyptian
  6. 6Chapter III — Lock Classification. The Puzzle-Lock and the Dial-Lock
  7. 7Chapter IV — Warded Locks, With Their Varied Appendages
  8. 8Chapter V — On Tumbler, or Lever Locks
  9. 9Chapter VI — The Bramah Lock
  10. 10Chapter VII — American Locks
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Lock Controversy: Previous to the Date of the Gr…
  12. 12Chapter IX — The Lock Controversy: During and Since the Time of the…
  13. 13Chapter X — Effects of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Improving En…
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Lock and Key Manufacture
  15. 15Chapter XII — English Patents for Locks — Aubin’s Lock Trophy
  16. 16Appendix

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