Project Gutenberg 2015-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 63 Matthews, Stanley R. Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Edwards, Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors" by Stanley R. Matthews is a thrilling adventure novel written in the early 20th century. This tale follows the exploits of Matt King, affectionately known as "Motor Matt," and his cheerful friend Carl Pretzel, as they navigate the dangerous world of rival inventors in the early days of aeronautics. The story begins with Matt and Carl witnessing an air-ship in distress, which sets off a chain of events involving a criminal gang and the pursuit of stolen blueprints for innovative flying machines. The opening of the story introduces Motor Matt and Carl as they enjoy a quiet picnic when they spot the erratic flight of the air-ship named "Hawk." Their curiosity leads them to intervene in a precarious situation where the air-ship is out of control. They attempt to assist the struggling pilots while also discovering that something sinister is at play. As the narrative unfolds, they soon realize that the incident is linked to a larger criminal conspiracy involving stolen inventions. The chapter effectively builds intrigue, setting the stage for Matt's subsequent kidnapping by a rival inventor, which propels the adventure across the skies and into dangerous territories. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure stories Airships -- Juvenile fiction Dime novels Mechanics -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 230809 230820 2024-10-20T05:59:36.927163 2023-09-20T15:55:46.597076 text/html text/html 230787 2015-01-06T19:04:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 469136 2015-01-06T19:04:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 461955 2024-10-20T05:59:41.280368 application/epub+zip 462612 2024-10-20T05:59:37.521186 application/epub+zip 158065 2024-10-20T05:59:37.202152 application/epub+zip 557393 2024-10-20T05:59:44.581295 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 529033 2024-10-20T05:59:40.875176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 227610 2022-09-21T17:55:23.108889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210564 210346 2024-10-20T05:59:36.190167 2023-09-20T15:55:45.984564 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 210676 2015-01-06T19:04:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 80230 2015-01-06T19:04:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19756 2024-10-20T05:59:44.716118 application/rdf+xml 28339 2024-10-20T05:59:37.277155 image/jpeg 4138 2024-10-20T05:59:37.240163 image/jpeg 474293 2024-10-20T05:59:36.962157 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