Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
- Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
Infobox Book
name = Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
orig title = Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain
translator =
image_caption =
author = Victor Appleton
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series = Tom Swift
genre = Young adult novel Adventure novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = 1911
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 200+ pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
followed_by = Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
"Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers", Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain, is Volume 7 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Plot summary
Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figured out the formula of manufacturing a limitless fortune in diamonds. But these rogues will stop at nothing to keep their secret. Tom & friends are soon captured and left to die in a collapsing mountain.
Inventions & Innovation
Although the story still revolves around invention, Tom did not have any part in the invention. In this story, the major invention, and plot device, is a diamond-making machine, utilizing the power of harnessed lightning. Unfortunately for Tom and friends, they were never able to get close enough to the machinery to determine the secret to making diamonds.
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1282 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers e-text at Project Gutenberg]
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