A & L Locksmiths LLC

Do you know that the most famous magician of his time, Harry Houdini, who was known for his sensational feat of escape, was once a locksmith?

Anthropologists believe the first locks created by humans were used to secure doors. Care to guess where they were discovered and when they were made? That would be in Egypt about 4,000 years ago. They were fashioned from wood.

The time-lock mechanism installed in many of today’s bank vaults was an invention patented by American inventor James Sargent. He received the patent for his revolutionary locking system in 1873.