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Tom Swift: Adventures on the Road: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift Adventures on the Road Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Industrial Espionage is foiled by Tom! This thrilling tale of daring and heroics by Tom sees him run down, drugged, and kidnapped! Our young hero repairs a wrecked car, manages a bold escape and after some serious detective work outwits a gang of criminals. This criminal element makes their escape but not before promising revenge! Tom Swift, ... more »the inspirational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. These fantastic and future-predicting stories are VERY alive today. Swift was modeled after the entrepreneurial and inventive geniuses Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, who both changed our world more than any other two people. Like Arthur C. Clarke, Swift invented or predicted many modern discoveries including the Taser, camcorder, video-phone, electric car, and several others.« less