Its and old video, I know but I have to leave this comment. I'm from Stratford CT. It's not a town in a city. How is that possible? It's a town located next to the city of Bridgeport. Sheesh, I thought you were smarter than that.
all locks can be picked, even if it is extremely difficult. their reatest weakness is that they are meant to be opened. a weakness which can be exploited. the safest lock is just a wall.
The safest lock is not making yourself a target, and ensuring that the valuables are not known and well hidden... if nobody knows there is valuables, then they won't have a need to go looking for them... Then again, perhaps some theif just happened to break into your house, and break your living room lamp, exposing all your life's savings.
It's one of the (many) reasons the plot of the first Harry Potter makes no sense. The safest place for the Sorcerer's Stone is not behind some series of "locks" Voldemort was always going to be able to figure out how to get by. Better to have that elaborate set of "locks" ending in the mirror that supposedly is a way to get the stone (using it all as a trap more than anything), but then put the stone in the safest place for it on Earth (and easiest for Flamel to access when he needs more elixir)- Dumbledore's pocket.
zzz43452 English (York Rite) Freemasons, while embracing a disturbing degree of moral relativism, are ANGELS compared to the LONG schismed Italian Rite freaks. Be wary of all Masons, but be fair in telling the difference, too. The York, Scottish and Shriner rites have objectively done some good in the world in spite of their relativism. The Italians, however, are rotten to the core.
The irony is that the locks Hobbs was selling were most likely just as easy to pick if not more-so, but obviously he couldn't demonstrate that without shooting himself in the foot.
I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...
I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...
Interesting that his later life had him first make a sewing machine that stitches a LOCKstitch, and then he goes to work for a firearms manufacturer as the operational parts of firearms were also called "LOCKs".
Yea, I heard about Hobbs from trying to find out more about the Bramah locks and how to pick them. He even fashioned his own tools. An amazing feat, even for today.
The Chubb name is now owned by United Technologies Corporation (UTC), an American company. Chubb's famous domestic and commercial locks are still manufactured but no longer bear the Chubb name because that part of the operation is now owned by Assa Abloy. Chubb locks in custodial environments (prisons and police stations) are also now manufactured by Assa Abloy but do still bear the Chubb name under licence from UTC. UTC owns Chubb Electronic Security, which installs services and maintains security systems.
Hey Today I Found Out crew check into the different types of hardplate used in safes. They make bi-metal types that will actually grab your drill bit and break it, ball bearing imbedded plates, ceramic (such as Mosler's Relsom line) that can not be drilled even with diamond grit bits. Or the old us post office safes that had tear gas in them!
@@itsianman in principle your right. The problem here is not that the diamond's don't cut through the ceramic. The problem is heat and resistance. The diamond's are attached to the drill bit by a layer of electroplated Nickel (Ni) and this layer can melt. Cooling is a problem even in stationery tools. That's why you can see that on hard steel the tools are set more slower then machine is capable of. So the ceramic plate means drill fast your nickel melts and the drill bit is for the dump or make it slow and you need more then an hour to drill trough. 🤔
Great video! It reminds me of the fun stories of the physicist Richard Feynman, who learned how to break locks as a hobby and played pranks at secure sites like Los Alamos just for the hell of it.
Wasn't expecting to see the main reason I want to go to DEFCON in the comments of a TIFO video! Will you be speaking this year? (Assuming there is one)
This was a super interesting video. I always enjoy the ones about people in history who I wouldn't otherwise know about if I stuck to the stuff of our school textbooks.
Thanks for the Bridgeport, CT shout out. In recent decades, our city is much maligned, but we have a fascinating history! Remington Arms is a big part of that fascinating history! (See PT Barnum, Bridgeport mayor)
Clever title, made me think of Calvin Hobbes and John Locke. The European philosophers of absolutism and constitutionalism Who are often compared and contrasted together.
A Six step guide on picking open a lock door Step one: Load Shotgun Step Two: Aim at Hinges Step Three: Fire Step Four: Aim at lock Step Five: Fire Step Six: Kick the door Pros: Pretty badass and awesome Cons: You now need a new door
I pick locks at least 4 times a week at work. No matter how advanced or secure people think a lock is it will never be secure only slightly more difficult to get into.
just subscribed! amongst a gazillion of clickbait channels on youtube you really stick out with short, entertaining, truly interesting and amazing stories. keep up the good work!
As i was once told by a professional lock smith, "All locks and security barriers are there to make things as difficult as possible and take too much time. We sell time, not impenetrable walls."
As Sherlock Holmes said: The best place to hide a needle is not in a haystack, but among other needles. So the more expensive and secure lock used, is an sign that theres something worth stealing.
Ever hear of Linus Yale, Jr. When he took over his father's lock-making shop, he invented a pin-tumbler lock cylinder that still in use today. It was the first to use a flat medal key that is easy to carry than the larger bone keys previously needed to open a lock.
Are locks are unbreakable, and un-pickable. Mr. Hobbs "Give me a few hours." *Later* Your lock has been picked. Little did anyone know Mr.Hobbs had the Skeleton Key of Nocturnal.
My great grandfathers Thomas Barnes and John H. Newell owned the Barnes and Newell Safe making company in Pittsburgh. One of the best. Wonder if we're related.
picking locks is easy all you gotta do is shove a swissarmy knife blace into the lock and BOOM insta lock pick. At least thats the 80s macgyver shows us.
If you can make pictures in your mind? You can pick locks. The worst I've had was not a two sided key (two rakes taped together on 3 drags is less than 10 seconds for me), but the ever dreadful double deep cut before or after a shallow cut? You really need to work your mind and relax a spell. That w looking one goes in to the hilt with a tension bar, then the tongue rake gets slipped through and you'd be lucky to get it in 10 minutes. Not saying that I didn't do it in a lot less than 1, but it always feels like a lifetime regardless of if you hold your breath through the process. "Feel" is a gift, but relative luck works just as well.
Sadly there's no lock that can prevent a door from opening under a strong brute force attack, even if it were made of diamonds and carbon nanotubes. A lock should be simply considered as an essential layer of security that works within a larger system, like armed guards, surveillance and fortified building techniques, combined with secrecy and obscurity, and finally a plan B for securely removing the protected assets in case the system has failed and is to be completely breached, like tunnels or dead locking the asset in a fixed container that cannot be opened without a major attack until further measures can be taken to clear the intrusion. That is simply difficult and costly and wouldn't make sense for anything short of storage of weapons of mass destruction and gold reserves, and maybe homes for the mega rich.
@@FroggyBB Yeah, but unless you're actively trying to support someone associated with a brand, or you have stock in the company, who cares about the brand names? IMO off-brand cereals usually have better flavor than the on brand counterparts. For example Fruity Dino-Bites > Fruity Pebbles.
But how did the Woodbridge lock work? I was able to find information on the Detector and Precision locks - a few good TH-cam videos of locksmiths taking them apart. But nothing on Woodbridge's.
The Chubb building shown towards the end of the video is no longer a manufacturing place, nor does it belong to Chubb, it is (or was 25 years ago when i last visited) a bar and cinema. I knew a few people who worked for Chubbs back in the early 90's
At 9:07 Simon says that Remington Arms was founded by Marcellus Hartley. Hmm, not really, but sort of. E Remington & Sons was founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. In 1888 the company went bankrupt, was purchased by Marcellus Hartley and Partners, and was renamed Remington Arms Company.
I dont know why, but I've devoted pretty much all of my free time to watching these... It could be because I love history and learning new things, but I think it might also be because the topics these videos cover isn't well known to most. Either way, great job!
Marcellus Hartley wasn't the founder of Remington Arms Company though he did own it for a time. He was born in 1827, 11 years after the company was founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816.
For a very detailed, yet still entertaining video on this topic, watch this awesome presentation by Schuyler Towne: th-cam.com/video/BjkLRVgb95M/w-d-xo.html
You probably already know this but the founder of Remington arms company you made reference to was actually the third owner of the company. The founder was Eliphalet Remington II and the company was passed on to his son Philo Remington after the death of Eliphalet in 1865.
Now that you know all about Hobbs and his locks check out this video and find out What is Unobtainium?:
th-cam.com/video/OQmcAGZk1Is/w-d-xo.html
Bosnian Bill could pick it. Dude can pick some of the toughest locks out there. But yes it was a lever lock not a pin tumbler.
Its and old video, I know but I have to leave this comment. I'm from Stratford CT. It's not a town in a city. How is that possible? It's a town located next to the city of Bridgeport. Sheesh, I thought you were smarter than that.
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"There is a problem with your lock. It won't keep your door shut."
Savage
*dubstep drop*
Ye Olde Roast
4th degree burns.
Apply cold water on burn
'now look here, you little shit'
He put all his skill points into lockpicking.
and smithing apparently.
Sophisticated Dinosaur had he invested in enchantments, he would have been nigh-invincible
Not lock picking but dexterity and inteligence because he was a mechanical genius.
A.A. B. That’s fallout, not Skyrim.
don't forget Speechcraft (or Mercantile for older Elder Scrolls titles).
all locks can be picked, even if it is extremely difficult. their reatest weakness is that they are meant to be opened. a weakness which can be exploited. the safest lock is just a wall.
Walls can be picked. With a pick.
Thermal lance beats everything.
The safest lock is not making yourself a target, and ensuring that the valuables are not known and well hidden... if nobody knows there is valuables, then they won't have a need to go looking for them... Then again, perhaps some theif just happened to break into your house, and break your living room lamp, exposing all your life's savings.
As the saying goes, "The best security is looking like you don't need it."
It's one of the (many) reasons the plot of the first Harry Potter makes no sense. The safest place for the Sorcerer's Stone is not behind some series of "locks" Voldemort was always going to be able to figure out how to get by. Better to have that elaborate set of "locks" ending in the mirror that supposedly is a way to get the stone (using it all as a trap more than anything), but then put the stone in the safest place for it on Earth (and easiest for Flamel to access when he needs more elixir)- Dumbledore's pocket.
So basically Hobbs was an all around wizard when it came to anything that required him to work with his hands.
No double entendres intended.
Sera such a bad joke
in bad taste maybe but still very crude and funny well atleast to me XD
That ABSOLUTELY was intended. You don't have to pretend.
Quick, disable his hands. we can't let this man use somatic components!
zzz43452
English (York Rite) Freemasons, while embracing a disturbing degree of moral relativism, are ANGELS compared to the LONG schismed Italian Rite freaks. Be wary of all Masons, but be fair in telling the difference, too. The York, Scottish and Shriner rites have objectively done some good in the world in spite of their relativism. The Italians, however, are rotten to the core.
"This is the Lockpicking Lawyer and today we are going to pick this unpickable lock from this video"
Nah, he picks mostly low to mid security locks 😂 real high sec locks are rarely seen on his channel
The irony is that the locks Hobbs was selling were most likely just as easy to pick if not more-so, but obviously he couldn't demonstrate that without shooting himself in the foot.
My grandfather, a retired sheriff, says "a lock is just to keep an honest man honest".
my grandfather, also a retired sheriff, says the same thing.
@@ShadowAraun as does mine.
@@Anastas1786 Locks are for honest people, guns are for the dishonest.
My grandfather is dead
So, Hobbs was basically the 19th-century equivalent of a white-hat hacker mixed with an antivirus salesman.
Reminds me of Difference Engine by William Gibson - there's a class of folks talented at programming mechanical computers called "clackers"
That's EXACTLY what he was... When he wasn't just being a mechanical genius...
Derek Broestler So...he was sort of like a steampunk hacker/tinker/salesman?
I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...
I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...
Interesting that his later life had him first make a sewing machine that stitches a LOCKstitch, and then he goes to work for a firearms manufacturer as the operational parts of firearms were also called "LOCKs".
I was going to make exactly that comment but I see you were here a year before I was and beat me to it.
Ferrets are QUICK! 😸😸😸
Yea, I heard about Hobbs from trying to find out more about the Bramah locks and how to pick them. He even fashioned his own tools. An amazing feat, even for today.
Lockpicking increased to +35, Leveled up
"There is something the matter with the lock"
"What is it?"
"Your lock won't keep the door shut"
What a fuckin' savage
A very, very picky man.
Hey, Michael here
@vsauce
lol clever
T3rmination Nation lol I came here just to post that
Great minds think alike lol
One of your best videos ever made! You earned my patreon subscription today! Been watching for years and I'm ready to make the leap!
Thanks!
Yeah, this was a really well done episode, it seems to capture the vibe of the channel perfectly....
The Chubb name is now owned by United Technologies Corporation (UTC), an American company. Chubb's famous domestic and commercial locks are still manufactured but no longer bear the Chubb name because that part of the operation is now owned by Assa Abloy. Chubb locks in custodial environments (prisons and police stations) are also now manufactured by Assa Abloy but do still bear the Chubb name under licence from UTC. UTC owns Chubb Electronic Security, which installs services and maintains security systems.
Hey Today I Found Out crew check into the different types of hardplate used in safes. They make bi-metal types that will actually grab your drill bit and break it, ball bearing imbedded plates, ceramic (such as Mosler's Relsom line) that can not be drilled even with diamond grit bits. Or the old us post office safes that had tear gas in them!
Drillssafe
"We're in!"
Tear gas happens
diamond drills can cut anything, as they are using the hardest material known
Secret is using a hand saw. Hood ole trusty one for wood.
Also for tear gas, use a frenchman. They have a genuine resistance to it nowadays.
@@itsianman in principle your right.
The problem here is not that the diamond's don't cut through the ceramic.
The problem is heat and resistance.
The diamond's are attached to the drill bit by a layer of electroplated Nickel (Ni) and this layer can melt.
Cooling is a problem even in stationery tools. That's why you can see that on hard steel the tools are set more slower then machine is capable of.
So the ceramic plate means drill fast your nickel melts and the drill bit is for the dump or make it slow and you need more then an hour to drill trough. 🤔
@@sebastianschmidt566 unless you had a ridiculous drill and drill bit that you could pump coolant through lol
Great video! It reminds me of the fun stories of the physicist Richard Feynman, who learned how to break locks as a hobby and played pranks at secure sites like Los Alamos just for the hell of it.
A lovely video conveying marvelous facts about a fascinating time in history.
And thanks for the book recommendation to your viewers! :-D
A damn fine book! Loving my copy still. Even with the typos. ;)
nice to see you both here :)
Hey there. You just never know who you'll bump into where a love of locks is involved. :)
Wasn't expecting to see the main reason I want to go to DEFCON in the comments of a TIFO video! Will you be speaking this year? (Assuming there is one)
@@SupremeLordGeek hah, I guess we'll just have to see. Fingers crossed!
I live in Stratford, CT and have never heard this story. I love hearing these old stories
This was a super interesting video. I always enjoy the ones about people in history who I wouldn't otherwise know about if I stuck to the stuff of our school textbooks.
I thought it was about John Locke and Thomas Hobbes the 17th century English philosephers
+1
That’s the pun
SwaggerOnHundred haha same 😂
Lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one
me too
Lock is "impossible to pick"
Hobbs: click on 1, 2 is binding, 3 is loose...
This was a great learning experience especially Hobbs abilities and sarcasm.
Thanks for the Bridgeport, CT shout out. In recent decades, our city is much maligned, but we have a fascinating history! Remington Arms is a big part of that fascinating history! (See PT Barnum, Bridgeport mayor)
Clever title, made me think of Calvin Hobbes and John Locke. The European philosophers of absolutism and constitutionalism
Who are often compared and contrasted together.
Hobbes first name was Thomas. You're probably confusing it for the classic "Calvin and Hobbes" comics.
Millitron oh haha I didn't realize my mistake, you're right
A Six step guide on picking open a lock door
Step one: Load Shotgun
Step Two: Aim at Hinges
Step Three: Fire
Step Four: Aim at lock
Step Five: Fire
Step Six: Kick the door
Pros: Pretty badass and awesome
Cons: You now need a new door
Step Seven, realize that any door you could open with a shotgun is one that could be simply kicked in.
Step 8: Get yelled at for wasting ammo and alerting the residents
That's right draw attention to you breaking into something by making a loud noise
Step 9: Gain a 5 star wanted level
Maxim Gun also lets everyone know your breaking into said place. Letting police know who to arrest
If people knew how easily common household locks could be opened without the key they'd be shocked.
On the flip side: I can easily open my door if I lose my key.
Same here.
I pick locks at least 4 times a week at work. No matter how advanced or secure people think a lock is it will never be secure only slightly more difficult to get into.
Big Boss as with everything, if it can be opened legitimately, it can be opened illegitimately with barying degrees of dificulty
They would have lock shock.
just subscribed!
amongst a gazillion of clickbait channels on youtube you really stick out with short, entertaining, truly interesting and amazing stories. keep up the good work!
I really wish there were more documentaries about the lock history.
Yeah, my masturbatory tastes are difficult to cater for also.
As i was once told by a professional lock smith, "All locks and security barriers are there to make things as difficult as possible and take too much time. We sell time, not impenetrable walls."
As Sherlock Holmes said: The best place to hide a needle is not in a haystack, but among other needles.
So the more expensive and secure lock used, is an sign that theres something worth stealing.
Very interesting information. I found the fact that he went to work with Remington toward the end to be of most interest. Good video.
I love the philosophical pun in the title.
And the episode was - as usual - well worth the time.
Thank you.
Ever hear of Linus Yale, Jr. When he took over his father's lock-making shop, he invented a pin-tumbler lock cylinder that still in use today. It was the first to use a flat medal key that is easy to carry than the larger bone keys previously needed to open a lock.
Wow! Thanks Simon and team GREAT video!
The building at 8:40 is in Wolverhampton England.......
Best quote ever there at the end. "Your lock won't keep the door shut." lol
Every video of yours I have watched so far has been fantastic. My complaint is that I haven't discovered you until recently.
Brilliant and well researched. Thank you.
With relatively recent subscriptions to bosnianbill and LockPickingLawayer channels, this was indeed very interesting.
I’m curious how Mr. Hobbs would get along with a challenge lock.
Appears someone actually invested their perks into the Lockpicking Skill.
Your voice makes the video well done and very informative
Are locks are unbreakable, and un-pickable. Mr. Hobbs "Give me a few hours." *Later* Your lock has been picked. Little did anyone know Mr.Hobbs had the Skeleton Key of Nocturnal.
Our locks are unbreakable, and un-pickable ... i just wish he would be around today to pick the Bowley Lock
Today I just found out that there was a channel on You Tube called "Today I found out". "Subscribed?" "Absolutely Sir!"
My great grandfathers Thomas Barnes and John H. Newell owned the Barnes and Newell Safe making company in Pittsburgh. One of the best. Wonder if we're related.
I really enjoyed this video.
As I have a TH-cam channel where I pick locks.
I have read this whole story a few years back.
Thank you for sharing
That was a beautiful story. Much appreciated.
Just because you can pick the competition's lock doesn't mean the lock you are selling is better.
Unless, of course, you competition is unable to pick your locks, then they have no way to prove otherwise...
Monthly lockpicking competitions on live tv?
Yes! Hobbs' lock certainly is less well known that the Chubb Detector. The Detector was still in use by the UK MOD until very recently.
But it is undoubtedly a great selling point
indeed
He says "I hope you found this video interesting," and I said, "I did. I do. I find that shit way the what-the interesting."
Interesting! Very proud coming from Bridgeport
One of the better videos you've done.
Clicked on this thinking it was a lockpicking lawyer or Bosnian Bill video... not even mad, excellent video.
3:06 The most british way to say "hold my beer...."
Hobbs must be Lock Picking Lawyer's great great great uncle.
That was brilliant, I did read about it many years ago but that was a nice recap..
decent production~
Tim Hunkin's machines are also a national treasure~
This contravasy was quite interesting. What surprised me more than any of that tho, was the pronunciation of a word I like to call: kahn truh vur see.
picking locks is easy all you gotta do is shove a swissarmy knife blace into the lock and BOOM insta lock pick. At least thats the 80s macgyver shows us.
Why would Macgyver need to do that when he had a rubber band and a piece of string?
Two people didn't like the video. Their last name is likely Chubb...
If you can make pictures in your mind? You can pick locks. The worst I've had was not a two sided key (two rakes taped together on 3 drags is less than 10 seconds for me), but the ever dreadful double deep cut before or after a shallow cut? You really need to work your mind and relax a spell. That w looking one goes in to the hilt with a tension bar, then the tongue rake gets slipped through and you'd be lucky to get it in 10 minutes. Not saying that I didn't do it in a lot less than 1, but it always feels like a lifetime regardless of if you hold your breath through the process. "Feel" is a gift, but relative luck works just as well.
The Fiasco Garage or just buy a lockpicking gun for 20 dollars, insert the mechanism, pull the trigger once, and it's unlocked. It takes 3 seconds
Well done, sir!
Is that how you pronounce controversy ?
Emil Olivarez why yes, it is.
Nah but the great Whistler can say it how he wants because he is a God.
kontrowersja
That pronunciation of the word is controversial.
Controverception.
only if you come from a small island with a small gene pool
7 minutes for a skilled lock picker to open a lock is still a prestigious feat for a consumer lock in the modern day
Sadly there's no lock that can prevent a door from opening under a strong brute force attack, even if it were made of diamonds and carbon nanotubes. A lock should be simply considered as an essential layer of security that works within a larger system, like armed guards, surveillance and fortified building techniques, combined with secrecy and obscurity, and finally a plan B for securely removing the protected assets in case the system has failed and is to be completely breached, like tunnels or dead locking the asset in a fixed container that cannot be opened without a major attack until further measures can be taken to clear the intrusion.
That is simply difficult and costly and wouldn't make sense for anything short of storage of weapons of mass destruction and gold reserves, and maybe homes for the mega rich.
Great video! Awesome story indeed.
When I saw Hobbs and Lock in the title I was not expecting this.
That was really interesting! Thank you!
This channel is like Great Value Vsauce.
Comparable quality in greater quantities and for a better price?
@@DraconicDuelist yes, but off-brand.
@@FroggyBB Yeah, but unless you're actively trying to support someone associated with a brand, or you have stock in the company, who cares about the brand names? IMO off-brand cereals usually have better flavor than the on brand counterparts. For example Fruity Dino-Bites > Fruity Pebbles.
did you just compare him to walmart brand? LOL
@@DraconicDuelist Comparable, if not worse quality
But how did the Woodbridge lock work? I was able to find information on the Detector and Precision locks - a few good TH-cam videos of locksmiths taking them apart. But nothing on Woodbridge's.
Congrats on 1million subs!!!
Thanks!
Awesome video Simon
D'oh. Hoped for Hobbes and Locke commentaries.
Someone has their lock picking skill leveled to 100 and maybe even a few legendary tags. Did not know the elder scrolls was a thing back then.
Well, he seems like a mechanical genius, which makes me think he wouldn't be stupid enough to put perk points into lockpicking.
Wesley Lance haha nice one!
he was also an master alchemist ,enchanter and he knew the restoration potion glitch .
It's Fallout Newvegas
More like this! So good this video
The Chubb building shown towards the end of the video is no longer a manufacturing place, nor does it belong to Chubb, it is (or was 25 years ago when i last visited) a bar and cinema. I knew a few people who worked for Chubbs back in the early 90's
This was really interesting, thanks
I find it funny how people were skeptical of his lockpicking skills. Now a days, no one would question that.
I can just imagine all the colour draining out of the staff of the building as Hobbs pulled the door open
I’m glad you didn’t lock this information away.
At 9:07 Simon says that Remington Arms was founded by Marcellus Hartley. Hmm, not really, but sort of. E Remington & Sons was founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. In 1888 the company went bankrupt, was purchased by Marcellus Hartley and Partners, and was renamed Remington Arms Company.
this was a good one mate
Well done!
Thanks heaps that was very very interesting
Cool ! Thanks for sharing .
“Your lock won’t keep the door shut.”, what a boss.
"To show it wasn't a fluke, let's do that again". Now, where have I heard that before? 😁
I've always found lock picking one of the most relaxing arts out there.
Newport Police Department didn't think so though....
Picked in time for lunch. Good chap
I dont know why, but I've devoted pretty much all of my free time to watching these... It could be because I love history and learning new things, but I think it might also be because the topics these videos cover isn't well known to most. Either way, great job!
Great video!
Excellent.
Maybe follow up with the Great Train Robbery?
joshua43214 yes please!!
Marcellus Hartley wasn't the founder of Remington Arms Company though he did own it for a time. He was born in 1827, 11 years after the company was founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816.
Can you look into chemical composition of margarine? I've "heard" it is one chemical away from being plastic. Appreciate it!
For a very detailed, yet still entertaining video on this topic, watch this awesome presentation by Schuyler Towne:
th-cam.com/video/BjkLRVgb95M/w-d-xo.html
Well this just inspired my next D&D character.
7:40 ouch... *interesting video by the way*
Oh my god what a savage. 7:36 insert supa hot fire meme of everyone going OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHG
Very interesting story. Good one
Absolutely excellent
You probably already know this but the founder of Remington arms company you made reference to was actually the third owner of the company. The founder was Eliphalet Remington II and the company was passed on to his son Philo Remington after the death of Eliphalet in 1865.