Cracking Prince's Vault (This American Life)

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Cracking Prince's Vault (This American Life)

Post by dualstow » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:53 pm

This is interesting.
Basically, if the vault senses it's being tampered with, a spring-loaded mechanism fires like a mousetrap, snapping this metal block into place, that physically makes it so the door can't open, even if you have the combination.

Dave McOmie:
And when it fires, it goes, bang! It shoots over, and you cannot turn the handle. And I was really nervous about the mousetrap relocker in this particular door.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/750/transcript
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Re: Cracking Prince's Vault (This American Life)

Post by dualstow » Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:01 pm

From wikipedia:
Several Mosler vaults installed in Hiroshima's Mitsui Bank building prior to WWII survived the nuclear attack, a fact the company widely publicized in its marketing.[3][4]
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