"Appleton, Victor - Tom Swift Jr 13 - And His Space Solartron" - читать интересную книгу автора (Appleton Victor)

5 Exciting Plans
6 A Night of Peril
7 Antitruth Serum
8 Space Outpost
9 Blackout!
10 Lariat Lifeline
11 A Startling Disappearance
12 Message from Nowhere
13 The Secret Formula
14 Moon Search
15 The Half-Buried Rocket
16 Trapped in the Abyss
17 Surprise Missile
18 A Strange Capture
19 Flag of Truce
20 A Race to the Rescue



CHAPTER I
MORE POWER!

"Calling Tom Swift!"
"Power failure in the wind tunnel!"
"Hey, the presses have stopped in the metal-stamping department."
Excited voices blared out over the loud-speaker in Tom Swift's private
laboratory at Swift Enterprises' vast experimental station. The telephone was
jangling shrilly. A lanky, blond youth of eighteen with deep-set blue eyes
switched off his experimental equipment and scooped up the receiver.
"Tom Jr. speaking."
"For Pete's sake, take it easy, skipper!" gasped a voice at the other end of
the line. "You've popped the main circuit breaker!"
"The load's off," Tom reported. "I just stopped my experiment."
As he hung up, a husky dark-haired youth burst into the laboratory. "Hey,
what's going on,
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genius boy?" Bud Barclay demanded. "Are you trying to sabotage this
place?"
Tom grinned wryly. "Relax, Bud. I was just running a test on my new matter-
making machine. I arranged with the power plant to cut in the stand-by generator,
but even that wasn't enough to handle the current load."
Bud slumped down on a lab stool and mopped his forehead. "Whew! I
thought someone was blowing up the joint! Even the radio tower started to-"
Suddenly his voice trailed off and he stared at the young inventor. "Did you
say a matter-making machine?"
Tom chuckled at the surprised look on his friend's face. Bud Barclay was his
closest chum and acted as copilot on Tom's air and space nights.
"That's right, pal," Tom explained. "This pilot model rigged up on my test
bench is designed to turn electrical energy into matter."
Bud shook his head. "Man, that'll be a better trick than pulling a rabbit out of