High-security padlocks have been in existence since the early 1900s and have been presenting firefighters with forcible entry challenges for more than 100 years. Long before power tools became readily ...

The answer is actually quite simple, but let me first explain why that locking device is there. Section 422.30 of the National Electric Code (NEC) requires a disconnecting means for all appliances.

In this episode of EC&M Code Conversations, Editor-in-Chief Ellen Parson and Code Consultant Russ LeBlanc discuss Sec. 240.24 – taking a look at why circuit breakers don’t always meet the definition ...

Marc Weber Tobias is a lock breaker. It's what he does for a living, the way he makes some of his money and much of his name. But for a guy like Tobias, it's far more than a job. Hacking locks, when ...

Circuit breakers are easily switched on and off which can cause problems for professionals carrying out an intervention. Shocks and extreme injury can be the results of prematurely reactivating a ...

Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers. An invasion of 3-D–printed robots may be coming, capable of popping one of the world’s most ubiquitous brands of combination ...