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Chapters

  • 1. History of keys
  • 2. Viking-Era keys…
  • 3. The Nyköping Banquet
  • 4. Locks and keys in folklore
  • 5. Locks and keys in art
  • 6. Locks of wood and iron
  • 7. Farmers' padlocks
  • 8. The history of padlocks
    • Roman Era, 500 BC–300 AD
    • Vendel Era, 550–800 AD
    • Viking Era, 800-1050
    • Swedish Middle Ages, 1050-1520
    • Vasa Renaissance, 16th Century
    • Europe at war, the 17th Century
    • The Enlightenment, 1700–
    • Polhem
  • 9. Theft and punishment
  • 10. The locksmith’s workshop
  • 11. Church keys
  • 12. The Polhem lock
  • 13. Eskilstuna, smithing town
  • 14. Keysmithing by the Domneån River falls
  • 15. Pull locks from Dalarna
  • 16. Locks for chests and boxes
  • 17. Safes and vaults
  • 18. Padlocks in China
  • 19. Keys and locks from Imperial Rome
  • 20. Money chests

Polhem

The section on Christopher Polhem is so extensive that it has been made into a separate article.

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Published 22 Jan 2008

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