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Title: The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
Author: Richard Bonner
Release Date: October 18, 2004 [EBook #13783]
Language: English
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[Illustration: (Frontispiece) Jack experienced an odd thrill as he
prepared to send the first spoken word ever exchanged between an
airship and land--_Page_ 71.]
THE
BOY INVENTORS' RADIO-
TELEPHONE
BY
RICHARD BONNER
AUTHOR OF "THE BOY INVENTORS' WIRELESS TRIUMPH," "THE BOY
INVENTORS AND THE VANISHING GUN," "THE BOY INVENTORS'
DIVING TORPEDO BOAT," "THE BOY INVENTORS' FLYING
SHIP," "THE BOY INVENTORS' ELECTRIC
HYDROAEROPLANE," ETC., ETC.
_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_
_CHARLES L. WRENN_
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. THE POWER OF THE AIR
II. AN ENCOUNTER WITH A CHARACTER
III. THE PROFESSOR'S DILEMMA
IV. "WHERE IS HE?"
V. CHESTER CHADWICK--INVENTOR
VI. THE RADIO TELEPHONE
VII. THE GREAT TEST
VIII. TALKING THROUGH SPACE
IX. THE BOYS FACE TROUBLE
X. AN INVOLUNTARY AERONAUT
XI. BY THE ROADSIDE
XII. MAKING ENEMIES
XIII. THE LEADEN TUBE
XIV. IN THE HOSPITAL
XV. A TALE OF THE COLORADO
XVI. ZEB CUMMINGS
XVII. IN THE LABORATORY
XVIII. INTO THE STORM
XIX. THE "LIGHTNING CAGE"
XX. THROUGH THE AIR
XXI. VAULTING TO THE RESCUE
XXII. "Z. 2. X."
XXIII. ON THE BORDER LINE
XXIV. "THE THREE BUTTES"
XXV. INTO THE BEYOND
XXVI. THE START FOR THE UNKNOWN
XXVII. THE PROFESSOR'S SECOND DILEMMA
XXVIII. THE UPPER REGIONS
XXIX. A MUD BATH
XXX. NIGHT ON THE COLORADO
XXXI. THE ISLAND OF MYSTERY
XXXII. THROUGH THE WOODS
XXXIII. THE SECRET AT LAST
XXXIV. THE INTERLOPERS
XXXV. TRIUMPH
XXXVI. THE HOMECOMING
The Boy Inventor's Radio-Telephone.
CHAPTER I.
THE POWER OF THE AIR.
"That's it, Jack. Let her out!"
"Suffering speed laws of Squantum, but she can travel!" exclaimed Dick
Donovan, redheaded and voluble.
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