Greetings:

One of my **other** passions is collecting old science
fiction. One of the series that I collect are the "Tom
Swift, Jr." books by "Victor Appleton, Jr." (actually
a pen name for a number of authors).

I made a query on the Tom Swift list (yet another
Yahoo group) about whether SR's made appearances in
the books, and this is the very informative reply that
I received. Enjoy!

Fred Kiesche

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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:35:32 -0500
From: "Thomas Ippolito" <tippolit@...>
Subject: Re: Blackbirds and Slide Rules...and even
some Tom Swift!

> One of my other collecting passions is for slide

rules. Anybody ever come
across a slide rule reference in the TS Sr. or Jr.
books?

Yes, many. As a matter of fact, Tom Jr. was forever
pulling out a slide rule to
perform calculations. Tom Sr. did so occassionally.
Here is a list of instances
in which a slide rule was mentioned:

Tom Swift Among The Fighters Fighters (chapter 21)
Tom Swift and His Chest Of Secrets (chapter 8 - I
believe this one involved one
of Tom's employees)
Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster (chapters 3, 4,
8 and 10)
Tom Swift and His Outpost In Space (chapter 19)
Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite (chapter 16 - Bud
cracks that they should
break for the night or Tom will be slaving over a
slide rule all night)
Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon (chapters 3 and 6)
Tom Swift and His Space Solartron (chapter 5)
Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope (chapter 6)
Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts (chapter 8)
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X (chapter 6)
Tom Swift and His Electronic Hydrolung (chapter 14)
Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober (chapter 4)
Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates (chapter 7)
Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector (chapter 5)
Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet (chapter 8)

Thomas R. Ippolito

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