Category: History - Other
[_The materials for this paper, together with the rest of the Museum, have been in course of Collection since the year 1851, and some of the specimens illustrated have been exhibited to the public at Bethnal Green and South Kensington for some years._]
[_The materials for this paper, together with the rest of the Museum, have been in course of Collection since the year 1851, and some of the specimens illustrated have been exhi...
2. Part 2[5] WILKINSON'S 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,' vol. i., p. 355. The date of this passage in Judges is open to question. INMAN ('Ancient Faiths,' vol. ii., p. 19...
3. Part 3A further modification of this takes place in the Swedish padlock, figs. 26C and 27C, Plate V., in which the parallel bar _d_, instead of being a fixture, is made to turn upon a...
4. Part 4M. LIGER supposes that the lifting key of the Roman lock was of Asiatic origin, and that the revolving key came into use amongst the Romans about the commencement[36] of our era...
5. Part 5At what time and through what particular channels the various kinds of locks were distributed can only be determined after more extended inquiry into the archæology of padlocks....