[Leica] Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Hi Mark,

Back in ancient times, the 1930s and 40s, our local library had most of the 
early Tom Swift series.  I read every one of them that I could get my hands 
on.  Life was good!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:25 PM
Subject: [Leica] Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera


>I bought this book, Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, last night for ten
> bucks across the street having looked for decades for an original Tom 
> Swift
> series and never seen one in person.  And I go to a lot of used book 
> stores.
> I read the second Tom Swift Jr. series as a kid in the 60's as I happen to
> mention on the LUG a month ago. My grandfather read the original I think
> they told me.
> It was written in 1912, this book.
> He has built the perfect noiseless  air ship to go with the camera. An on
> going project from book to book it seems.
> Its a motion picture camera turns out.  And will work with crank, battery,
> or dynamo. I wiki'd dynamo.
> It is compliantly automatic. And I'll read it to find out if that means AF
> or A what. Its possible A means it turns on automatically when anything
> interesting is going on and films it. Then turns off again and goes to
> sleep.
> I hope not too many things are ruined me starting out with #14 of the
> series. The first one was Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle.
> I wondered when I first heard of this as a kid if  the Tom Swift character
> by some fluke actually invented the motorcycle. But ok probably not.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
>
> I mentioned that while the orignal series had modest names like
> Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle; or, Fun and Adventure on the Road, 1910
> Tom Swift and His Motor Boat; or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa, 1910
> Tom Swift and His Airship; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud, 1910
>
> The Tom Swift Jr. Series however, cold war infused was just the opposite 
> of
> modest in its inventions and rhetoric:
>
> Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster 1954 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
> Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter 1956 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
> Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane 1957 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
> Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope 1959 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
> Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar 1962 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
> Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober 1962 (by James Duncan Lawrence)
>
> Though his best friend was Bud and his girlfriend was named Penny. And his
> dad was Dad.  Mr. Swift to you, Sonny
>
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> Mark William Rabiner
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