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Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom builds a revolutionary electric motion picture camera and is tasked with cruising the world filming spectacular scenes. Tom also builds a new super-sized biplane/dirigible airship, the Flyer. Now the danger begins as Tom explores the world filming - wild and deadly animals, volcanoes, storms and the odd villains. Tom gets it all on film - ... more »will he make it back alive to show? This novel is VERY fascinating as it details just how Tom creates what will become today's camcorder! 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 entrepreneurial and inventive genius's Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, both who changed our world more than any 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