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: 9781547066841
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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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 will test himself on a 500-mile race against some of the best cars and skilled drivers in the United States.
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:
ISBN: 9781539603474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout By Victor Appleton
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: Appleton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546549307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on the Road By Appleton
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.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781722303334
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The fifth story in the classic series about Tom Swift, the intrepid young inventor and adventurer. The young and intrepid Tom Swift has developed his greatest invention yet: an electric race car. Tom's revolutionary battery technology allows the car to be recharged in half the time as normal batteries. Tom enters a race against professional drivers in top cars to prove his worth. At the same time, a gang of criminals is conspiring to cause a run on the local bank, which will ruin Tom and his town. Can town foil the criminals and win the race? Beloved by generations of children, the Tom Swift series has entertained boys and girls for over 100 years.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294474425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Tom Swift And His Electric Runabout: Or, The Speediest Car On The Road Victor Appleton Grosset & Dunlap, 1910 Fiction; Science Fiction; General; Adventure and adventurers; Adventure stories; Children's literature; Electric automobiles; Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Swift, Tom (Fictitious character)
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".
