electricity-resisting

Updated: May 17, 2025

The manager showed him over the vaults and strong-rooms, explaining the various precautions taken to render the guile or force of man impotent: the strength of the chilled-steel walls, the casing of electricity-resisting concrete, the stupendous isolation of the whole inner fabric on metal pillars so that the watchman, while inside the building, could walk above, below, and all round the outer walls of what was really although it bore no actual relationship to the advertising device of the front a monstrous safe; and, finally, the arrangement which would enable the basement to be flooded with steam within three minutes of an alarm.

Ernest Bramah - Four Max Carrados Detective Stories