A dissertation on the construction of locks
Subtitle: containing, first, reasons and observations, demonstrating all locks, which depend on fixed wards, to be erroneous in principle, and defective in point of security : secondly, a specification of a lock, constructed on a new and infallible principle, which, possessing all the properties essential to security, will prevent the most ruinous consequences of house robberies, and be a certain protection against thieves of all descriptions
By: by Joseph Bramah
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 13077.3; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for the author, sold by R. Baldwin
Published: 1785
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Locks and keys; Technological innovations; Locksmiths; Social life and customs
Notes: Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13077.3.