Linus Yale

Linus Yale is the name of:

  • Linus Yale, Sr. (1797–1858), American inventor and manufacturer of pin-tumbler locks.
  • Linus Yale, Jr. (1821–1868), innovator in cylinder lock technology, son and business partner of the above.

Famous quotes containing the word yale:

    “While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)