Linus Yale was an American inventor, manufacturer of bank locks, and 1st Mayor of Newport, New York. His patents were signed by President Andrew Jackson. His son, Linus Yale Jr., would later found the Premier manufacturer of locks in the United States, and be a pioneer in the American lock industry through the Yale Lock Company.
First plant of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, started by Linus Yale Jr. and Henry R. Towne
A Springfield Model 1861, built by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale for the Union Army, special government contract with Samuel Colt
Bank vault, their manufacture will be continued by his son Linus Yale Jr. through the Yale Lock Company
Rookery Building, Chicago, 1888, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, offices of Julian L. Yale's railway supply business, son of Linus Yale Jr.
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