Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
- Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Infobox Book
name = Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
orig title = Tom Swift and His Wireless Message, or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island
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 Electric Runabout
followed_by = Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
"Tom Swift and His Wireless Message", or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island , is Volume 6 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.
Plot summary
Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the hapless crew must simply let the storm take them wherever it will. Unfortunately, the storm proves too much for the craft and Tom makes a crash landing on the uninhabited and crumbling Earthquake Island.
Inventions & Innovation
The island is not entirely uninhabited, as the survivors of a shipwreck are also stranded on the island. Both groups quickly come upon each other, and working together, they are able to survive as Tom Swift builds a spark gap transmitter radio from salvaged parts. Tom Swift used the older and more established CQD distress call, which had been in use since 1904. The newer SOS distress call was adopted two years prior the timeframe of the story, in 1908. In contrast, in 1912 when the Titanic sank, the wireless operator transmitted their distress in both CQD and SOS formats.
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4227 Tom Swift and his Wireless Message e-text at Project Gutenberg]
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