LINUS YALE
Name: Linus Yale
Born: 14 April 1821
Died: 25 December 1868
Linus Yale, Jr. (14 April 1821 - 25 December 1868) was an American mechanical
engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially
the cylinder lock.
Linus Yale, Jr. was born in Salisbury, New York. Yale's father, Linus Yale, Sr.,
opened a lock shop in the 1840s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks.
His son joined him in the business in 1850, and introduced some combination safe
locks and key-operated cylinder locks around 1862. Then in 1868, he and Henry
Robinson Towne founded the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company in the South End
section of Stamford, Connecticut to produce cylinder locks. Yale died later that
year.
Yale & Towne Lock Company later became so successful that Stamford was later
nicknamed "Lock City."
Yale's cylinder lock, also called a pin-tumbler lock, was based on a principle
similar to that of the first key-operated lock invented by the Egyptians around
2000 B.C.
Inventions patented by Linus Yale, Jr. and his estate from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office:
Name: Linus Yale
Born: 14 April 1821
Died: 25 December 1868
Linus Yale, Jr. (14 April 1821 - 25 December 1868) was an American mechanical
engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially
the cylinder lock.
Linus Yale, Jr. was born in Salisbury, New York. Yale's father, Linus Yale, Sr.,
opened a lock shop in the 1840s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks.
His son joined him in the business in 1850, and introduced some combination safe
locks and key-operated cylinder locks around 1862. Then in 1868, he and Henry
Robinson Towne founded the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company in the South End
section of Stamford, Connecticut to produce cylinder locks. Yale died later that
year.
Yale & Towne Lock Company later became so successful that Stamford was later
nicknamed "Lock City."
Yale's cylinder lock, also called a pin-tumbler lock, was based on a principle
similar to that of the first key-operated lock invented by the Egyptians around
2000 B.C.
Inventions patented by Linus Yale, Jr. and his estate from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office: