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Tom swift and his giant cannon or, the longest shots on record

Tom Swift must construct a cannon large enough to protect the Panama Canal while evading saboteurs.

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  • "Tom Swift and his giant cannon"@en
  • "Tom Swift and his giant cannon"
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  • "Tom Swift must construct a cannon large enough to protect the Panama Canal while evading saboteurs."@en
  • "The story opens with a discussion between Barton Swift and an old friend, Alec Peterson. Alec is trying to convince Mr. Swift to finance an expedition to locate a hidden opal mine, but Mr. Swift is reluctant. In the middle of the conversation, Tom is flying one of his airships, but gets tangled up in power lines. Mr. Peterson cuts the wires, saving Tom's life. Tom is so grateful to Mr. Peterson that Tom is willing to finance the expedition himself. In the meanwhile, the story segues to Tom's next invention, a cannon bigger than any that has been built to date. Tom hopes to sell his invention to the United States government, for use in protecting the Panama Canal."@en
  • "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 of good. This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade"."
  • "In the course of the series, Tom Swift has a number of adventures in a variety of places and is helped at times by his inventor father Barton Swift and his friends New Newton and Wakefield Damon."@en
  • "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 of good.". Tom Swift is the young protagonist in this series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the ear."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "Publishers' advertisements"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Children's literature"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
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  • "Tom Swift and his giant cannon"
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  • "Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon"@en
  • "Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record"
  • "Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record"@en
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