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RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOCKS.
PREFACE.
ADVERTISEMENT.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. ON LOCKS AND LOCK-LITERATURE.
CHAPTER II. ANCIENT LOCKS: GRECIAN, ROMAN, EGYPTIAN.
CHAPTER III. LOCK CLASSIFICATION. THE PUZZLE-LOCK AND THE DIAL-LOCK.
CHAPTER IV. WARDED LOCKS, WITH THEIR VARIED APPENDAGES.
CHAPTER V. ON TUMBLER, OR LEVER LOCKS.
CHAPTER VI. THE BRAMAH LOCK.
CHAPTER VII. AMERICAN LOCKS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE LOCK CONTROVERSY: PREVIOUS TO THE DATE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
CHAPTER IX. THE LOCK CONTROVERSY: DURING AND SINCE THE TIME OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
CHAPTER X. EFFECTS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851 IN IMPROVING ENGLISH LOCKS.
CHAPTER XI. THE LOCK AND KEY MANUFACTURE.
CHAPTER XII. ENGLISH PATENTS FOR LOCKS—AUBIN’S LOCK TROPHY.
APPENDIX.
CHAPTER XIII. ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF LOCK AND KEY.[12]
CHAPTER XIV. FENBY’S PATENT STOP-LOCK.
NOTE UPON IRON SAFES.
INDEX.
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