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Tom Swift creates a Giant Cannon: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift creates a Giant Cannon Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton The story begins with Tom in imminent danger of being electrocuted. Tom escapes with the help of a chap who enlists Tom to protect the Panama Canal by building a giant cannon. Tom also has to develop a new propellant to drive the two-ton 30 inch shells, which is daunting and dangerous too. This massive artillery super-gun is constructed in s... more »pite of the efforts of nefarious international terrorists and is used just in time to save the US coast. Find out how by reading the rest of the story. Tom Swift, the inspirational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. 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