Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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"Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank-run scheme). Tom must solve the mystery and stop the criminals behind the plot before he'll test himself on a 500 mile race against some of the best electric cars and skilled drivers in the United States."--Librivox.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522730835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Tom Swift is the main character of five series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. First published in 1910, the series total more than 100 volumes. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm. Tom's adventures have been written by various ghostwriters, beginning with Howard Garis. Most of the books are credited to the collective pseudonym "Victor Appleton." The 33 volumes of the second series use the pseudonym Victor Appleton II for the author. For this series, and some of the later series, the main character is "Tom Swift, Jr." New titles have been published as recently as 2007. Most of the various series emphasized Tom's inventions. The books generally describe the effects of science and technology as wholly beneficial, and the role of the inventor in society as admirable and heroic. Translated into many languages, the books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Tom Swift has also been the subject of a board game and a television series. Several famous people, including Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, have cited "Tom Swift" as an inspiration. Several inventions, including the Taser, have been inspired allegedly by Swift's fictional inventions. "TASER" is said to be an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle."
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775412873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle is the first book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781541371910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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American boys' fiction under pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate who produced Tom Swift series, Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Dave Fearless and many others.Fun from early in the twentieth century as young inventor Tom Swift builds an electrical car to participate in a race of similar cars. Along the way our young hero battles bullies from previous novels who seek revenge, plots to sabotage his creation, and a bank seeking to ruin the one he and his father have thier money invested in. If you've read the previous books, and I have, Appleton's got mastery of his character and knows where's he's going.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Tom Swift is the hero of five series of books. The genre is science fiction and adventure. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer to emphasize science, invention and technology. Most of the books were ghost-written under the name Victor Appleton. The series began in 1910, and continues until today. In this book, Tom Swift invents an electric race car.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 386195379X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Reprint of the adventure novel originally released in 1910.
Author: Appleton Victor
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318797097
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Victor Ii Appleton
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421824604
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Tom, we're having a problem with the gyro-stabilizer, said Mark Faber, gray-haired president of the Faber Electronics Company. "Hope you can find out what's wrong." The eighteen-year-old inventor accepted the challenge with a smile. "I'll be glad to
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books. The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton name: Tom Swift (1910-1941), Motion Picture Chums (1913-1916), Moving Picture Boys (1913-1922), Movie Boys (1926-1927), Don Sturdy (1925-1935), Tom Swift, Jr. (1954-1971) (technically, ""Victor Appleton II""), Tom Swift (Third Series) (1981-1984) and Tom Swift (Fourth Series) (1991-1993). Contract authors of these books writing under the name ""Victor Appleton"" included James Duncan Lawrence, Howard Roger Garis, John W. Duffield, W. Bert Foster, Debra Doyle with James D. Macdonald, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Robert E. Vardeman, Thomas M. Mitchell.
