author
Richard Bonner
Best known for early 20th-century boys' adventure stories, this writer imagined young inventors building radios, flying ships, torpedo boats, and other thrilling machines. The books blend fast-moving action with a sense of excitement about new technology.
6 Audiobooks
The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship
by Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat
by Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
by Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun
by Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane
by Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph
by Richard Bonner
About the author
Very little is firmly documented about Richard Bonner as a person. Reliable reference sources note that almost nothing is known beyond the name attached to a string of American juvenile adventure novels, so the safest way to understand the author is through the books themselves.
Bonner is associated with the Boy Inventors series, including The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone, The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship, The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat, The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane, The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph, and The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun. These stories were published in the early 1910s and helped capture a moment when wireless communication, aviation, and mechanical invention felt new and full of promise.
Today, Bonner's work survives mainly through public-domain and library editions, where it remains a curiosity for readers interested in vintage adventure fiction, early science-flavored storytelling, and the imaginative energy of the machine age.