History Door Locks

As everest and yale launch a revolutionary new smart lock we look back at the history of locks and keys from wooden locks in ancient egypt to 21st century keyless locks.

History door locks.

The earliest known lock and key device was discovered in the ruins of nineveh the capital of ancient assyria. The development of physical security is much more complicated than a linear history of locks and keys. The ancient romans also pioneered the earliest combination locks transforming the key from. They appeared in ancient times and received constant upgrades with the arrival of new manufacturing processes over the last 4000 years.

It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock and a common egyptian lock for the time. The first recorded history of doors was found in egyptian tomb paintings 4000 years ago. No one knows who invented the door only that it was first incepted somewhere in central egypt. It consisted of the wooden post that was affixed to the door and a horizontal bolt that slid into the post.

Locks such as this were later developed into the egyptian wooden pin lock which consisted of a bolt door fixture or attachment and key when the key was inserted pins within the fixture were lifted out of drilled holes within the bolt allowing it to move. History of locks and keys spans the entire range of our modern human civilization. Archeologists found the oldest known lock in the khorsabad palace ruins near nineveh. The lock was estimated to be 4 000 years old.