A brief history of the invention of the lock
The earliest locks in the world originated from Chinese wooden locks. Early wooden locks have been found in the Yangshao cultural site 5000 years ago. In some historical documents of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-256 BC), there have been records of locks and keys in warehouses. Early wooden locks simple in structure and cumbersome in shape. They used bamboo poles and wooden sticks as keys and easy to open.
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