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The Brahma Safety Lock

For hundreds of years, locks were not very good. The best ho could do was try to confuse an intruder into picking a fake lock. And then in the 17 seventies, an english guy named joseph brahma entered the locksmithing scene. He made something called, aptly, the brahma safety lock. It would literally just rip a full grown tree out of the ground by its roots. That one wasn't as popular, but it was pretty cool.

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