- Joseph Bramah, A Dissertation on the Construction of Locks (1790). This transcript has been supplied by Paul Prescott, to whom we are grateful for permission to reproduce it here. Paul provided the following description:
"The transcript below has been created by scanning the original text of the book and then processing with OCR software. The scanned file then required editing to transcribe it from 18th century English into modern English, mostly replacing old ' f ' with modern ' s ' and correcting scanning errors or flaws. Any comments in { italics } are additions added by myself. There were two editions of this book, this is a transcript of the 1st edition."
The transcript is © copyright Paul A Prescott 2005, all rights are reserved. - John Chubb, On the Construction of Locks and Keys (1850).
- Aitken's Article (1876).
- Chubb, On the Construction of Locks and Safes (1893).
- Ramsell's Article (1936). An address on "Locks and Lock Manufacture" by H.G. Ramsell presented to the Birmingham Association of Mechanical Engineers.
- Primitive locks and keys. Lieutenant General Pitt-Rivers 1883 book on primitive locks and keys.
