
THE BOY INVENTORS’ DIVING TORPEDO BOAT
CHAPTER I. THE RUNAWAY CAR.
CHAPTER II. THE “WHITE SHARK.”
CHAPTER III. A WONDERFUL CRAFT.
CHAPTER IV. MORE STRANGE DISCOVERIES.
CHAPTER V. A WILD CHASE.
CHAPTER VI. JACK MAKES A PROMISE.
CHAPTER VII. THE LAUNCHING OF THE MODEL.
CHAPTER VIII. JUPE BATTLES WITH A WATER MONSTER.
CHAPTER IX. OFF ON THE STRANGEST CRAFT ON RECORD.
A thrilling mishap throws two teenage friends from a runaway trolley into an unexpected crash, leaving them bruised but alive on a strange, pine‑walled workshop beside a lake. The sudden collision brings them face‑to‑face with a kindly, silver‑haired inventor whose cluttered laboratory is filled with sketches, brass models and the faint hum of unseen machines.
As the boys recover, they discover the man’s obsessive project: a sleek, underwater vessel that can dive like a torpedo and glide beneath the surface. Their curiosity and mechanical knack soon draw them into the eccentric genius’s plans, promising daring experiments and secret tests in the hidden cove. With youthful ingenuity sparking against seasoned expertise, the stage is set for an adventure that blends danger, invention, and the lure of the deep.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (215K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Roger Frank, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Jan 28, 2017
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Remembered for fast-moving adventure stories for young readers, this early American writer is best known for the Boy Inventors series and other science-fiction-flavored juvenile fiction.
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