Yale Home

So that's what the stories are about.

They started in 1861 with Linus Yale Jr. and the pin tumbler lock.

And their point is that Yale's genius was miniaturization.

He took a 4,000-year-old Egyptian wooden lock and shrink it into something that fit in your hand.

Somewhere in the century that followed, the industry forgot that lesson and started wearing its strength on the outside with bigger housings, thicker faceplates, and heavier boxes.