Installers who are involved in the banking and financial sector can now see how it all started.

American Genius shows how bank vault locks and time locks evolved in nineteenth century USA and is the first new book on this specialist subject since 1928!

Published by WW Norton & Co Ltd, London (tel 0207 323 1579), at £35, the specialist book shows many of the locks were hand-crafted masterpieces decorated with engravings and castings.