Download or read book 22 Tom Swift and His SeaSpace HydroFarm HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Seaspace Hydrofarm written by Victor Appleton II and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure 22 in this new series sees Tom and Bud and their wives vacationing in Barbados, only to discover a terrible food shortage is about to befall several Caribbean islands. Tom's wife wants him to help, but it is only once a relatively new British Ministry comes to Swift Enterprises with money and an official request that he finds he may have an idea or two.The major obstacle is how do you build farm land on a totally used island where nothing more exists without ruining the ecology?When he settles on a unique growing environment, there are many things to overcome, not the least of which are rampant rumors on many of the islands saying that the Swifts are out to capture and steal their land. One man is so angry he shoots Tom during a public event.But, not a lot can get the inventor down except for a returning enemy out to destroy him and the humanitarian project. Obstacle after obstacle are overcome as he works to finish his SeaSpace HydroFarm.
Download or read book 25 Tom Swift and the HoverCity HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 23 Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re Placement HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hardbound edition of novel 23 in this series, Tom must travel to Mars to find out just why the small moon, Phobos, has suddenly begun coming close to the surface. In fact it is coming down to lower and lower orbits that could, within months, endanger the colonists on the planet below. He first tries to use brute force and to push it back into higher orbit, but nearly loses several spacecraft in the attempt. So, he now is faced with finding out the why of it all before he can find a solution that won't mean simply destroying the moon. That, he fears, might backfire and do damage to the colony and the planet. He tries to find some answers with the aid of his Space Friends, but they seem to have disappeared from his life. Without their help he mounts an expedition of Phobos and finds about the last thing he might think of. Now it is a race against time to see if he can rectify the situation and re-place Phobos in its correct orbit.
Download or read book 21 Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first novel in this new series, Tom has defeated the Electricity Vampires and now wants something a bit less diabolical to take up his time. A new X-Prize is announced that intrigues him: fly a solar-powered aircraft, non-stop, around the globe in just 36 hours! That sort of speed will require an electrical powered jet, and that will burn up a lot of electricity. So, how can he manage to make what he needs by day... and still have enough to run at full speed at night? Might his recently discovered cousin in England, Thomasina Swift, be of some assistance? After all, she and her partner, Betty, have come up with an incredible solar cloth! Just as long as nothing ""exotic"" is used like one of Tom's Power Pods. Complicating things is a mysterious woman, and a deadly opponent, seemingly out to keep Tom from winning or perhaps from ever getting back home alive.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Hypersonic SpacePlane written by Thomas Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 29th novel of this series, Tom Swift decides to "dust off" and see if he can make an early dream come true. At the age of sixteen he had built a small jet he called his Nuclear Hyperplane. It was anything but either of those things. Now, nearly sixteen years later he believes he might do something to make that dream come true. He sets out to design an aircraft that might travel at five times the speed of sound.Because he is award that he cannot continuously spend without bringing some sales into Swift Enterprises, he plans to build a hypersonic passenger jet capable of getting half way around the world in about three-and-a-half hours. It is an ambitions plan.It comes to the attention of at least two unfriendly entities, both of whom try to ruin his plans; at least one believes that killing the inventor is the way to accomplish this.By taking things in little steps, he inches closer and closer to his dream, but can he manage to do it while remaining safe?
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Motor Boat written by Victor Appleton and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift and His Motor Boat is the second book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Download or read book 8 Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harlan Ames Down to Earth written by Thomas Hudson and published by Harlan Ames Adventures. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his first adventure, "Harlan Ames: Man On The Moon" the former Security man for Swift Enterprises takes on a self-proclaimed mission to go down to Earth from his life on the Moon to search for the woman he once fell for and who has disappeared.With in is his trusty girl Friday-Kelly Greene-who he has been thinking of as more than just a sidekick or assistant. Together they dig into the underworld and subcultures of the former Los Angles area that had been hit by an exploding spaceship, which Harlan might have had a little to do with!Dueling waterjet gangs and a young girl are encountered an the action is just about non-stop. Truly, it is enough to make a man who is older than a hundred-and-fifty years a little tired and cranky!
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Translocation Matrix written by Léo Levesque and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel in this series. Sadly, Tom Swift has given up on the governments of the world. After fifty years of trying to help mankind and being instrumental in setting up colonies on Venus, Mars, and numerous moons throughout the outer solar system, he and ten thousand colonist, family and former employees have left the home system forever. Their destination has been to explore the Pleiades star constellation with hopes of locating a new, human-friendly home planet. Along with them are the remnants of the dinosaur race he once thought of as his "space friends." The uneasy peace between them is softened by the fact their Prime Leader is a human. The only problem is that his bride, Phyllis Newton, is the human who has become the Prime Leader of the dinosaurs. She and their asteroid ship start out for the same place as Tom and his more conventional ship, but they soon are separated by millions of light years, and even by the sum total of time itself. As each group encounters new beings and new challenges, they find the universe is a pretty hostile place to be.
Download or read book Tom Swift and the Space Friends Return written by Thomas Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In novel 30 of the series, Tom Swift seems to be facing something he could scarcely believe possible a couple years earlier. When a mystery object crashes into a walkway at Swift Enterprises-just feet behind the inventor-it is the start of either one of Tom an Damon Swift's most recent joys... of the start of a terrible nightmare!The Space Friends had disappeared from the solar system a couple years earlier, but it seems they are coming back. And, they will not (or cannot) tell Tom why they are coming. Once they do, a huge surprise is in store for everyone. Even the President of the United States has no idea what to do and allows the Swifts to "run the show."Tom must plan to do something neither Swift has ever considered to be an option; he must design and construct an offensive weapon just in case the visit turns out to not be a friendly one.
Download or read book Sandra Swift and the Lost Airship written by Michael Wolff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st adventure in this new series. With her famous father and brother in Africa on a research project, Sandra Swift felt she had a full plate with helping to run Swift Enterprises. But then she receives a visit from two FBI agents who present her with a diary written by her grandfather: Barton Swift. Fifteen years before he had disappeared when the airship he had been traveling in had crashed somewhere in South America. The diary is the first bit of solid information to have surfaced. Armed with this new knowledge, and desperate to find out more, Sandy decides to immediately investigate and sets out for Ecuador, accompanied by best friend Phyllis Newton, and by new arrival "Bingo" Winkler. In Ecuador they encounter secret agents, double-crosses, corporate conspiracies, ghostly apparitions and threats both above and below the surface of the ocean as they try to uncover answers concerning the fate of Barton Swift.
