Linus Yale
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Linus Yale Jr. was an American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. He was a co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks in the United States. He was the country's leading expert on bank locks and its most important maker.
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Linus Yale Jr., portrait
Example of a bank vault and a vault door, Linus will get orders from the United States Treasury Department in 1857
Custom house of Pittsburg 1857, a customer of Linus Yale
Yale Lock fair, showing the Yale exhibition on the west side, and the Waltham Company of Massachusetts
Yale lock system, Otto's Encyclopedia
Yale Bank Lock advertising, referring to their use in around 3/4 of all banks in America![Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., in 1897. By the early 20th century, the enterprise evolved into an international conglomerate, serving customers in over 120 countries, with a workforce of about 12,000 employees[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Yale_%26_Towne_Manufacturing_Co%2C_1897.jpg/500px-Yale_%26_Towne_Manufacturing_Co%2C_1897.jpg)
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., in 1897. By the early 20th century, the enterprise evolved into an international conglomerate, serving customers in over 120 countries, with a workforce of about 12,000 employees[11]Awards 1
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Linus Yale Jr. was an American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. He was a co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks in the United States. He was the country's leading expert on bank locks and its most important maker. By the early 20th century, about three-quarters of all banks in America used his bank locks. He is best remembered for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock, and his basic lock design is still widely distributed today, and constitutes a majority of personal locks and safes.
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