Victor Appleton 3 hr 14 min read

Tom Swift invents a system for talking pictures broadcast through the air, a marvel that draws thieves and saboteurs, and lands Tom overboard, in a fight to protect his newest wonder.

Victor Appleton's 1928 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 television-like device, daring rescues, 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 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 14 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).