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Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
Victor Appleton
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The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a literal wall: excessively hard rock which defies conventional blasting techniques. The company is under pressure to finish, or else the contract will default to their rivals, Blakeson & Grinder. Mr. Job Titus has heard of Tom Swift and Tom's giant cannon, which is used in protecting the Panama Canal, and wants to hire Tom to develop a special blasting powder to help them finish the excavation.
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a literal wall: excessively hard rock which defies conventional blasting techniques. The company is under pressure to finish, or else the contract will default to their rivals, Blakeson & Grinder. Mr. Job Titus has heard of Tom Swift and Tom's giant cannon, which is used in protecting the Panama Canal, and wants to hire Tom to develop a special blasting powder to help them finish the excavation.
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"Look out now!" cried Tom, suddenly. "If things go right there won't be a rock left for you to 'bash' anybody's head with, Rad. Look out!"
The three cowered inside the shack, which, though it was rudely made, was built of heavy logs and planks, with a fronting of sod and bags of sand.
Tom turned a switch. There was a loud report, and where the stone pile had been there was a big hole in the ground, while the air was filled with fragments of rock and dirt. These came down in a shower on the roof of the shack, and Eradicate covered his ears with his trembling hands.
"Am—am de world comin' to de end, Massa Tom?" he asked. "Am dat Gabriel's trump I done heah?"
"No, you dear old goose!" laughed the young inventor. "That was just a charge of my new explosive—a small charge, too. But it seems to have done the work."
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In this installment our hero invents a new explosive to help an engineering firm create a railroad tunnel through a mountain, helps his friend Mr. Damon with a pharmaceutical company, and discovers a long lost, ancient Peruvian city.
What I find interesting is the science behind the discussion of exp
Good pulp-y adventure story. Great for getting in the mood to play pulp RPGs. Dated dialog makes it hard at time to read this series, only complaint.
I like reading these because of the view of the future as seen from the past.
But Tom in these early books has two servants.
One is a giant that is not very bright and refers to Tom as Master.
The other is an elderly ex-enslaved person who refers to Tom as Massa.
Neither of them speak standard English.
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In the beginning of Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, Job Titus visits Tom at his workshop. He has heard of Tom’s giant cannon, now in use in protecting the Panama Canal, and wants Tom to use the explosive powder he invented to help Job and his brother Walter in building a railroad tunnel in Peru. While
The majority of the story was a fun and well written tale. As with all of the Tom Swift, Sr. series, they are almost as much fun for the very antiquated science as they are for the plots.
This one is set mostly in the Peruvian Andes. That means a lot of old legends of lost cities of gold, vanishing
Experimentation in action
In this story Tom Swift is faced with seemingly insurmountable problems while helping to blast a tunnel. He has to invent new explosives to do the work. I enjoyed this story.
Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel! In this adventure Tom Swift gets hired on as a subcontractor to blast his way through the Andes Mountains. Read along as Tom Swift and a merry band of white men shoot wildlife, play with high explosives and are just a little (quite a bit) racist when dealing with the na