[belatedly...] ... As an amateur student of obsolete technologies, via old books & such: Verne was (as Tom Sr) more in line with what was than 'moderns' ...
[belatedly] Nuke flight, real world: US never flew any, tho the Russians did (?) US flew one reactor, mounted in a B-29, for practice. Reactor's can, as noted,...
James, anybody (I'm sure more or less everybody but me)-- I've never sold anything on EBay, but the concrete slab beneath my garage is starting to crack and I...
... Selling on eBay can be rewarding but be aware that it is mostly a buyer's market so a lot of items don't reach high values. I don't sell as often as I ...
... There's a outfit with franchise stores all over the place called iSoldIt, who apparently handle everything for you. You just take your box of stuff down...
... Yes, we have an iSoldIt on eBay storefront within some reasonable driving distance. I haven't had a lot of interaction with them. However, I have ...
... And you actually got the items? We bought something as a gift for a friend in Florida, from an iSold it right near her, and they would only accept payment...
Maybe someone on this list would like to buy your stock. Could you type up a list and make it available to people who ask you directly? Tom Nesler ... From:...
I just received today from German a copy each of both "Tom Swift and His Flying Lab" and "Tom Swift and His Jetmarine" in German published by Schneider-Buch. ...
For anyone interested the cover pictures can be found on Alex van Zelfden's page. (Found in our links section). http://www.series.net/swift/books.html There...
Believe it or not, its true: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1316840.1316841&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE Its apparently someway of teaching Russian, but the full...
... There are a few academic articles which use Tom Swift in the title. I have yet to see one where the boy inventor is anything but a title gimmick. The...
It is interesting however that people were thinking about computer aided language instruction as far aback as 1971. That's still the days of punched card,...
I currently reading the 90 year old Tom Swift novel, Tom Swift and His War Tank, printed in 1918. So far Chapter 1 has been interesting. The author is...
There's an eBay auction for what the seller claims is a "true first" in "chocolate brown." http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140212384405 ...
I have books 1 through 16 with dust jackets. Books 17, 19 and 20 yellow spine, no dust jacket and 18 with the wrap around cover. I would say they are in fair...
Are They Senior or Junior books? What is your email address? Tom Nesler ... From: Tom-Swift@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Tom-Swift@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
... Gotta be Junior. "18 with the wrap around cover" is a dead giveaway. That's Electronic Hydrolung. Sounds like a pretty good catch just for 16 dust jackets...
Hi Tom, From the description, these are Tom Jr's. The first 17 did come out in a dust jacket set, with 18 as a picture cover with a wrap around spine. Books...
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... This (tho i am not that old... 8)>>) likely an accurate depiction. ... I regard it as routine adaptation (for TS Sr) of existing tech to needs of Swiftian...
Dave, I'd be curious in your opinion. A few points operating from a rapidly failing memory. The tank as it appears in the frontispiece is essentially the large...
... I'm on the road for the next 3 weeks, this from memory. ... largely concur. The heavies were called Mark I thru IV, sometimes 'rhomboidal'. UK had 3 or...
Hi, I was driving back and forth across Upstate New York a number of times this past summer. Whenever I went into the Finger Lakes region, I would think of Tom...
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I think it's a bit interesting how specifically "war/national defense" issues appear, or don't, in the various series. TSS obviously deals with these matters...
... It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC Ned tried to enlist, but the Government felt that he was helping the war effort better at home selling the war...
I recall that the whole beginning of the book dealt with the question of Tom not being "over there". The explanation of Tom developing the War Tank was right...
Early on in the story it is revealed that Ned "dodged the draft" by leaving his high paying job with the Swifts in order to sell Liberty War Bonds at a lower...
Yes, I recall the top seller of bonds explanation for Ned's deferment as well. I don' t consider it dodging the draft since he was clearing contributing to the...
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