Remote Control Locks Bring Your Home into the 21st Century
In the mid-1800s door hardware to a great leap forward, along with most other things, due to the industrial revolution. Door handles went from blacksmith wrought thumb levers (the style you still see in gate hardware today) and handmade brass and iron rim locks, to mass produced iron rim and mortise locks sold throughout the country by retailers like Sears and Roebuck. By 1880, Yale had invented the modern pin tumbler lock and key system. About 1925, Mr. Schlage invented the modern cylindrical lockset and revolutionized the installation process--though these didn't really catch on until the post WWII building boom.
Then, sixty years of nothing.
Your hotel room and you ATM kiosk got electronic magnetic card reader locks. Your car not only got keyless entry, but it could remember where you wanted the mirrors and seats and change from wife to husband mode. How come your house didn't do this?
Well now your house, just like everyone else, is going on the internet!
Then, sixty years of nothing.
Your hotel room and you ATM kiosk got electronic magnetic card reader locks. Your car not only got keyless entry, but it could remember where you wanted the mirrors and seats and change from wife to husband mode. How come your house didn't do this?
Well now your house, just like everyone else, is going on the internet!