Victor Appleton 3 hr 15 min read

Tom Swift invents a telephone that sends pictures along with sound, a photo telephone whose images will help trap the villains behind a stolen fortune and a mysterious disappearance.

Victor Appleton's 1914 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a prophetic picture-phone, a fortune to be saved, and thwarted crooks, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 15 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).