flame-quenching

Updated: September 10, 2025

Of late, as related in "Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters," he had engaged in the invention of an explosive bomb carrying flame-quenching chemicals that would, in time, revolutionize fire-fighting in tall buildings. The matter that Mr. Richard Bartholomew, the railroad magnate, had brought to Tom's and his father's attention had deeply interested the young inventor.

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails