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Tom Swift: Two Miles a Minute on the Rails: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom is challenged to design and build an electric railroad locomotive from scratch that will top 120 mph and drag a string of loaded freight cars up a mountain! When Tom takes up the challenge, he faces threats of high explosives, armed robbery, sabotage, and subterfuge! Then, there are the hazards of trying to control half a million pounds of ... more »runaway loco on a mountain grade. You'll have to read the story to find out how Tom's brain and daring save the day! 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