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Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom and his team steam to Africa on a quest to rescue missionaries! Danger encroaches at every turn - Tom gets to use his new electric weapon to slay an amazing variety of beasts that swim, crawl, and stampede around him. Needless to say, the rifle is effective on smaller but no less dangerous creatures too, & saves the day when the group is at... more »tacked by savage tribesmen. Will Tom successfully rescue the missionaries? Read one of the most exciting of the Swift series to find out! Tom Swift, 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