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Tom Swift and his Mastery of the Sky: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift and his Mastery of the Sky Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom decides to invent a "silent" airplane motor. The craft then breaks down, seriously damaging Tom's credibility with Mary about the safety of air travel...During the development of the several changes needed to silence a normally noisy aircraft power plant, Tom runs afoul of a competitor for government contracts. Bribery, intimidation, espiona... more »ge, threats, theft and kidnapping are all used against Our Hero to try and sabotage his efforts. How and if these threats are overcome you will have to read the story to determine. Tom Swift, the inspirational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. 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