Let's get our #geek on The #bramah is a #lock design that was created by joeseph bramah in #1784. The design is the first known #highsecurity So confident I couldn't be picked, big joe bramah said.... "The artist who can make an instrument that will pick or open this lock shall receive 200 #guineas the moment it is produced" (that's about £20,000 in today's nuggets) Until.... 67 years later, at the great exhibition of 1851, the #OG American #locksmith Alfred Hobbs, rocked up and opened the lock following some argument about the circumstances under which he had opened it, was eventually awarded the prize. Hobbs' attempt required about 51 hours, spread over 16 days. (About the same amount of time some dodgy 'locksmiths' 🙄 spend opening standard cylinders with a drill in 2019) 🤣 #Lockcontroversy #alhobbs #geekon #ifhobbshadamichewoulddropit 🙋♂️🎤 (at Rugeley) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzD0zIMFv3i/?igshid=1dpipltvgctpd
