Locks Facts

New technology develops year to year and whenever a product is launched we might feel the desire to buy it, but not the feeling of actually needing it. However, if a new product or service is launched and we acquire it, we use it for some time and get used to it, we would feel desperate and we would feel a huge need to get it back if it were taken away from us.

Just think of the internet or cell phones. They haven’t been around for that long but we have become so dependent on those two things. If you leave the house and realize you forgot your phone, you go crazy! Or if for some reason the internet is off, you can’t find what to do all day and you get frustrated.

As we get used to things, we begin to take them for granted. Just like phones or the internet, imagine what our world would be like if locks didn’t exist! When you think of locks, technology isn’t exactly what comes into your mind. But what if nobody had ever invented them!? Before they existed, people were used to not having locks. But now that they do exist, if they were ever to disappear we would get a terrible feeling of being unsafe and we would never want to leave our house in fear that someone would break in and steal everything.

The oldest lock was discovered about 4,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. The lock was one of the most important inventions in Ancient Egypt. While that was the first actual lock found, there were also other attempts at securing items. People would use knots in rope like the thief knot to secure their belongings. The first combination lock was created by an American called James Sargent who came up with it in 1857. I think it’s safe to say that life would be so much different if nobody had ever invented the lock. Now you can easily contact a locksmith and you will have a wide variety of high-tech locks available!