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Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon : Or, The Longest Shots on Record.
Title:
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon : Or, The Longest Shots on Record.
Author:
Appleton, Victor.
ISBN:
9781775564621
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series:
Tom Swift Novels
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I On a Live Wire -- Chapter II "We'll Take a Chance!" -- Chapter III Planning a Big Gun -- Chapter IV Koku's Brave Act -- Chapter V Off to Sandy Hook -- Chapter VI Testing the Waller Gun -- Chapter VII The Impossible Occurs -- Chapter VIII A Big Problem -- Chapter IX The New Powder -- Chapter X Something Wrong -- Chapter XI Failure and Success -- Chapter XII A Powerful Blast -- Chapter XIII Casting the Cannon -- Chapter XIV A Night Intruder -- Chapter XV Ready for the Test -- Chapter XVI A Warning -- Chapter XVII The Bursting Dam -- Chapter XVIII The Doped Powder -- Chapter XIX Blowing Down the Barrier -- Chapter XX The Government Accepts -- Chapter XXI Off for Panama -- Chapter XXII At Gatun Locks -- Chapter XXIII News of the Mine -- Chapter XXIV The Longest Shot -- Chapter XXV The Long-Lost Mine.
Abstract:
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon is the 16th 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...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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