Country United States Publisher Grosset & Dunlap Originally published 1911 Page count 200 | Language English Publication date 1911 | |
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Genres Young adult fiction, Adventure fiction, Edisonade Similar Victor Appleton books, Tom Swift Original Series books, Other books | ||
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.
Contents
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.