History Of The Locksmith
When most of us think of the locksmith it will conjure images of a man with gigantic key ring full of keys trying to open a heavy old door leading to hidden or forgotten treasures. Being a locksmith, like being a blacksmith or carpenter, is a traditional labour job that has a long history. In fact the history of the locksmith is closely linked to that of the blacksmith and can be traced back to long before the middle ages with early locks consisting of a wooden wedge skewered between a door and its frame existing in biblical times. Like many innovations however, the earliest known lock and key system was found in Ancient Egypt and consisted of two crossbars mountain on two separate surfaces that were locked into place by small movable pins and utilised a key hole to disable. By inserting the key tiny pins would bee pushed out of the way back inside the crossbars to allow them to be moved, which is largely how locks today work.
