I’m going to be on NPR’s Science Friday program again today, discussing the Tom Swift novels. (Special thanks to Jess Zimmerman for sending a copy of Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone!) BONUS: A repository of info about the Tom Swift books BONUS: Tom Swift and the blessings of invention BONUS: Wikipedia is a good gateway for info about the […]
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Tom Swift and the blessings of invention
The Tom Swift books introduced young folks to inventions and scientific research. The original series was written in the early 1900s. Later series, featuring the offspring of the original characters, introduced different generations to much later technologies and discoveries. The books were written in a sort of industrial fashion, by the pseudonymous Victor Appleton. (One […]