Victor Appleton
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In "Tom Swift and His Undersea Search," Tom and his friends set out on an adventure to search for a treasure said to be located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. They use a state-of-the-art underwater diving vessel to explore the ocean depths and face many challenges, including dangerous sea creatures and treacherous underwater terrain. Through their bravery and determination, Tom and his friends are able to locate the treasure and make a great...
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout is a novel by Victor Appleton, part of the popular Tom Swift series. The book follows Tom Swift, a young inventor, as he builds an electric runabout, a type of car powered by electricity. He enters it in a race to win a large sum of money and prove its worth, but faces challenges and obstacles along the way, including a group of competitors who try to sabotage his efforts. With the help of his friends and his technological...
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Published in 1910, this is the first book to feature Tom Swift, who would go on to become the hero of more than 100 volumes that celebrate the young man's ingenious inventions and the wonders of science and technology. The novel discusses Tom's ability to obtain a motorcycle and the battles he faces in order to keep it.
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Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight is the 17th book in the Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton. In this book, Tom uses his latest invention, a powerful searchlight, to help Uncle Sam find enemy submarines near the US border. The searchlight attracts the attention of foreign spies, and Tom and his friends find themselves in dangerous situations as they work to protect the country. The book features exciting adventures, thrilling chases, and clever...
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Originally published in 1928, "Tom Swift and the Talking Pictures" invites young readers into the entertainment industry of the 1920s, a time when smartphones and constant media streaming were unimaginable.Step back in time and discover the era before talking pictures, when films were silent, accompanied by live music or sound effects during screenings. This transition marked a revolutionary change, unlocking new storytelling possibilities in the...
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Tom Swift is hired by a film company to invent a new kind of moving picture camera: "small and light with electric power, a regular wizard camera." Follow Tom as he takes it to Africa and India to film action pictures of wild animals, herds of elephants, scenes of native wars, earthquakes, and eruptions of volcanoes. The excitement begins on the sea voyage and continues on to Africa where Tom does his filming from a balloon...
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High-spirited young Tom Swift is off on another of his many exciting adventures. This time he's in search of gold in an underground lost city. Tom finds the lost city in a remote area of Mexico, and he finds the gold. Getting into the city was difficult for the adventurers, but when they try to get out, then their real adventure begins. Tom and his companions find themselves trapped in an underground city which contains as many traps and mazes as...
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This time Tom Swift is off to Alaska to hunt for the valley of gold. His friend Abe Abercrombie, an old miner, claims to know approximately where it lies: "up where the icebergs and caves of ice are." But he needs Tom and his airplane to help him locate the exact spot. Unknown to Tom, his chief rival, Andy Foger, gets wind of the project and vows to beat Tom to the prize. Unknown to both are the Alaskan natives who will kill to protect their gold......
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Tom and his friends get to the bottom of a practical joke gone wrong in this fifth novel in Tom Swift Inventors' Academy-perfect for fans of The Hardy Boys or Alex Rider.
It's another day at the Swift Academy when Tom starts finding little troll-like figures around campus. And he's not the only one. Much to the amusement and curiosity of students, these dolls are appearing all over the school. But even after they're collected by faculty, a second...
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Tom and his friends attend a science camp in this fourth novel in Tom Swift Inventors' Academy-perfect for fans of The Hardy Boys or Alex Rider.
Every year, Swift Academy students go to a nearby summer camp to field-test their inventions. Tom and his friends have been working hard on all their projects, but they're most thrilled about Noah's new virtual reality simulation. They can't wait for it to go live, and everyone is looking forward to running...
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When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you're bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class. At the academy, once class starts and the drone is parked, their brainiac friends then launch into farfetched discussions about the curriculum. And when they watch a documentary about the FBI's most wanted hackers from the...
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Tom has always tried to play down his pseudo celebrity status at the academy. So, the last thing he wants is for a reporter's son to follow him around for an article on the school. When this extends to one of the biggest field trips of the year-an overnight lock-in at Swift Enterprises-Tom couldn't be less pleased.
With his new shadow in tow, Tom expects the night to be uneventful at best. But when the facility suddenly goes into quarantine mode,...
77) The Sonic Breach
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Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top.
With the final battle coming up, Tom and his friends need as much time as possible to refine their masterpiece. But the rest of their teachers have been giving so many pop quizzes that they can barely...
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FULL CAST AUDIO DRAMA - Young Tom Swift purchases a motorcycle and, being the inventor that he is, modifies it to his specifications in time to transport his father's new invention (a revolutionary turbine motor design) to Albany. However, a group of investors plan to steal the design for themselves, and send a gang of thieves after Tom as he travels the back-roads to Albany. Let your imagination take hold as you enter the theater of the mind with...