''Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers'', Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain, is Volume 7 in the original

Tom Swift Tom Swift is the main character of six series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. First published in 1910, the series totals more than 100 volumes. The character was ...

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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

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. Unfortunately for Tom and friends, they were never able to get close enough to the machinery to determine the secret to making diamonds.

External links

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain e-text
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* 1911 American novels Tom Swift American young adult novels Novels set in Colorado {{1910s-ya-novel-stub