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Locks & Keys

Mechanisms in computation...
How much information is stored in a lock and key?
What role does materiality play in security?
How have these devices evolved?

Soyuz Launch Keys


Soyuz 15 Launch Key (Steel)


Soyuz 15 Launch Key (Steel)


Souvineer Soyuz Launch Key (Aluminum) and Commemorative Medal (Bronze)

15th or 16th Century Italian Lock and Key
May also possibly be German.

18th or 17th Century Spanish Colonial Key
From Peru.

Wanted: Lock & Key by:

BodePanzer A.G.
Hannover - Berlin
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Tangential - Vierbart
R.P. 37E. D.R. Pat.

nick.gessler(at)duke.edu