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Yale, Linus

(1821-1868), U.S. mechanical engineer and manufacturer, invented a small cylinder lock with pin tumbler mechanism and small flat key (patented 1861), which is still used today and introduced the combination lock a year or so later. He had established his first lock shop in the 1840s in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and formed the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1868. He was born April 4 1821, Salisbury, New York, and died Dec. 25, 1868, New York City.

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