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Foreign News
July 7, 1790
Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
What is this article about?
A report discusses a known lock-picking method used on the Iron chest at D'Aubigny's and introduces Joseph Bramah's pamphlet on a new, secure lock design that defies such techniques, described as simple yet inviolable.
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The method mentioned in the papers by which an impression of the key to the Iron chest at D'Aubigny's was obtained, is a known practice amongst the ill-disposed, and can with certainty be performed in one minute on the most intricate and secure locks that can possibly be constructed on the principle of fixed wards, and is an evil which art hath not yet found means to defeat, in locks fabricated on that system. It may therefore be acceptable to the public to acquaint them, that a pamphlet has lately passed through our hands entitled, "A Dissertation on the construction of Locks, by Joseph Bramah, Engine maker, of Piccadilly," wherein is a description of a lock, which bids defiance to the practice above alluded to, and also every other effort that is in the power of human ingenuity to invent. The contrivance is simple, yet possesses all the properties essential to inviolable security.
The method mentioned in the papers by which an impression of the key to the Iron chest at D'Aubigny's was obtained, is a known practice amongst the ill-disposed, and can with certainty be performed in one minute on the most intricate and secure locks that can possibly be constructed on the principle of fixed wards, and is an evil which art hath not yet found means to defeat, in locks fabricated on that system. It may therefore be acceptable to the public to acquaint them, that a pamphlet has lately passed through our hands entitled, "A Dissertation on the construction of Locks, by Joseph Bramah, Engine maker, of Piccadilly," wherein is a description of a lock, which bids defiance to the practice above alluded to, and also every other effort that is in the power of human ingenuity to invent. The contrivance is simple, yet possesses all the properties essential to inviolable security.
What sub-type of article is it?
Lock Invention
Security Technology
What keywords are associated?
Lock Picking
Bramah Lock
Iron Chest
D'aubigny
Security Pamphlet
What entities or persons were involved?
Joseph Bramah
Where did it happen?
Piccadilly
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Piccadilly
Key Persons
Joseph Bramah
Event Details
The text describes a lock-picking method used on the Iron chest at D'Aubigny's, a practice performable in one minute on fixed-ward locks. It introduces a pamphlet by Joseph Bramah detailing a new lock design that resists this method and all other picking attempts, described as simple yet securely inviolable.