Project Gutenberg 2003-10-01 Public domain in the USA. 100 Appleton, Victor Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone, or The Picture That Saved a Fortune" by Victor Appleton is a fiction novel written during the early 20th century. The book follows the young inventor Tom Swift as he embarks on a quest to create a revolutionary device that transmits images over telephone lines, which his father doubts is possible due to the limitations of science. Determined to prove his father wrong, Tom delves into the challenge amidst a backdrop of adventure, friendship, and the inevitable obstacles posed by rival inventors and shady characters. At the start of the story, Tom discusses his ambitious plans for the photo telephone with his father, who expresses skepticism about the invention's feasibility. Their conversation is interrupted by an unexpected incident involving a birdman whose aircraft gets caught in Tom’s wireless equipment, illustrating the chaotic yet adventurous life Tom leads. The opening sets the stage for Tom's challenges as he faces not only technical hurdles but also potential threats from unscrupulous individuals, highlighted later when he's attacked with chloroform in his workshop. This incident raises tension and sets up a mystery surrounding the safety of his inventions, making for an engaging beginning as readers are drawn into Tom's inventive world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction Swift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction Video telephone -- Juvenile fiction PZ PS Text Children's Book Series Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 270879 270880 2024-10-02T13:06:21.747859 2023-10-02T11:05:59.545057 text/html text/html 259976 2020-12-28T02:44:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 92268 2020-12-28T02:44:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 188181 2024-10-02T13:06:29.718788 application/epub+zip 190417 2024-10-02T13:06:25.364810 application/epub+zip 164736 2024-10-02T13:06:24.083791 application/epub+zip 446636 2024-10-02T13:06:32.644766 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 429342 2024-10-02T13:06:28.910834 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 386045 2022-09-02T15:09:48.323559 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 251048 250972 2024-10-02T13:06:21.099808 2023-10-02T11:05:59.020041 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 250842 2020-12-28T02:44:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 91199 2020-12-28T02:44:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20231 2024-10-02T13:06:32.854745 application/rdf+xml 24456 2024-10-02T13:06:24.655815 image/jpeg 4485 2024-10-02T13:06:24.370806 image/jpeg 186019 2024-10-02T13:06:21.773828 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia