Linus Yale Jr. was an American mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks in the United States. He was the country's leading expert on bank locks and its most important maker. By the early 20th century, about three-quarter of all banks in America used his bank locks. He is best remembered for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock, and his basic lock design is still widely distributed today, and constitutes a majority of personal locks and safes.
Inventor of the Pin-Tumbler Lock and founder of Yale Lock Co.
Linus Yale Jr., portrait
Example of a bank vault and a vault door, Linus will get orders from the United States Treasury Department in 1857
Custom house of Pittsburg 1857, a customer of Linus Yale
Henry Robinson Towne was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management. He donated several millions to philanthropy at his death, in 1924.
Henry R. Towne
Residence of Henry R. Towne, Yale Lock Company, 1890
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co, 1897.
Towne portrayed by woodcarver Frank Walter at St. Michael's Church (Episcopal), Litchfield, Connecticut. Cora White had the church built in Towne's memory.
