Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162793071X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Published in 1912, this is the adventures of Tom Swift and his great searchilight.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162793071X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Published in 1912, this is the adventures of Tom Swift and his great searchilight.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162793071X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Published in 1912, this is the adventures of Tom Swift and his great searchilight.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; Or, on the Border for Uncle Sam
Author: Appleton Victor
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314481785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314481785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547143092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Tom has finally perfected one of his latest inventions, a noiseless airship. This is a project Tom has been working on since the last few volumes, and now that it is finished, it appears that Tom is suddenly under scrutiny by United States border agents, who are tracking smuggling operations which utilize airships to move goods out of Canada, and avoid paying duty tax. Once Tom convinces the agents that he is not involved in smuggling, he is hired to help break up the operations.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547143092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Tom has finally perfected one of his latest inventions, a noiseless airship. This is a project Tom has been working on since the last few volumes, and now that it is finished, it appears that Tom is suddenly under scrutiny by United States border agents, who are tracking smuggling operations which utilize airships to move goods out of Canada, and avoid paying duty tax. Once Tom convinces the agents that he is not involved in smuggling, he is hired to help break up the operations.
Tom Swift And His Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789353447137
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
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ISBN: 9789353447137
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Tom has finally perfected one of his latest inventions, a noiseless airship. This is a project Tom has been working on since the last few volumes, and now that it is finished, it appears that Tom is suddenly under scrutiny by United States border agents, who are tracking smuggling operations which utilize airships to move goods out of Canada, and avoid paying duty tax. Once Tom convinces the agents that he is not involved in smuggling, he is hired to help break up the operations.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Tom has finally perfected one of his latest inventions, a noiseless airship. This is a project Tom has been working on since the last few volumes, and now that it is finished, it appears that Tom is suddenly under scrutiny by United States border agents, who are tracking smuggling operations which utilize airships to move goods out of Canada, and avoid paying duty tax. Once Tom convinces the agents that he is not involved in smuggling, he is hired to help break up the operations.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; Or, on the Border for Uncle Sam
Author: Victor Appleton, II
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355242734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355242734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; Or, on the Border for Uncle Sam
Author: Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
ISBN: 9783849167929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
ISBN: 9783849167929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781437820980
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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.
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781437820980
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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.
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight (Esprios Classics)
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"In "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" by Victor Appleton, readers are taken on an exhilarating journey with the young inventor, Tom Swift, as he creates an extraordinary searchlight that has the power to illuminate vast distances and revolutionize nighttime exploration. The story begins with Tom Swift's insatiable curiosity and his desire to push the boundaries of technology. He becomes fascinated with the idea of developing a searchlight that can cast a brilliant beam of light over long distances, capable of revealing even the most hidden of secrets. Eager to take on this ambitious project, Tom assembles a team of skilled engineers and scientists to assist him in the construction of the great searchlight. As construction progresses, Tom faces numerous technical challenges and setbacks. He must devise innovative solutions to overcome issues related to power source, beam stability, and portability. The young inventor's determination and problem-solving skills are put to the test as he strives to perfect the great searchlight. However, as Tom Swift's creation nears completion, it attracts the attention of those who seek to misuse its powerful capabilities for their own gain. The great searchlight becomes the center of a thrilling chase, as Tom and his friends must protect their invention from falling into the wrong hands. Throughout the story, Victor Appleton weaves elements of mystery and adventure, keeping readers captivated as they follow Tom Swift's journey. The searchlight's potential for aiding in nighttime navigation, scientific exploration, and even aiding in search and rescue missions makes it a valuable invention with implications far beyond what Tom had imagined. As the plot unfolds, the book delves into themes of responsibility and the potential consequences of scientific discoveries. Tom Swift is faced with the ethical implications of his inventions and must make choices that will shape the impact of his work on the world. "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" is not just an action-packed adventure but also a story that encourages readers to think critically about the role of technology in society. It prompts reflections on the responsible use of scientific advancements for the betterment of humanity and the preservation of the natural world. In conclusion, "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" is a thrilling tale of innovation, intrigue, and responsibility. Victor Appleton's portrayal of Tom Swift as a brilliant inventor with a strong moral compass makes this book an engaging and thought-provoking read for audiences of all ages."
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"In "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" by Victor Appleton, readers are taken on an exhilarating journey with the young inventor, Tom Swift, as he creates an extraordinary searchlight that has the power to illuminate vast distances and revolutionize nighttime exploration. The story begins with Tom Swift's insatiable curiosity and his desire to push the boundaries of technology. He becomes fascinated with the idea of developing a searchlight that can cast a brilliant beam of light over long distances, capable of revealing even the most hidden of secrets. Eager to take on this ambitious project, Tom assembles a team of skilled engineers and scientists to assist him in the construction of the great searchlight. As construction progresses, Tom faces numerous technical challenges and setbacks. He must devise innovative solutions to overcome issues related to power source, beam stability, and portability. The young inventor's determination and problem-solving skills are put to the test as he strives to perfect the great searchlight. However, as Tom Swift's creation nears completion, it attracts the attention of those who seek to misuse its powerful capabilities for their own gain. The great searchlight becomes the center of a thrilling chase, as Tom and his friends must protect their invention from falling into the wrong hands. Throughout the story, Victor Appleton weaves elements of mystery and adventure, keeping readers captivated as they follow Tom Swift's journey. The searchlight's potential for aiding in nighttime navigation, scientific exploration, and even aiding in search and rescue missions makes it a valuable invention with implications far beyond what Tom had imagined. As the plot unfolds, the book delves into themes of responsibility and the potential consequences of scientific discoveries. Tom Swift is faced with the ethical implications of his inventions and must make choices that will shape the impact of his work on the world. "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" is not just an action-packed adventure but also a story that encourages readers to think critically about the role of technology in society. It prompts reflections on the responsible use of scientific advancements for the betterment of humanity and the preservation of the natural world. In conclusion, "Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight" is a thrilling tale of innovation, intrigue, and responsibility. Victor Appleton's portrayal of Tom Swift as a brilliant inventor with a strong moral compass makes this book an engaging and thought-provoking read for audiences of all ages."