Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

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Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

Author	Victor Appleton
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tom Swift
Genre(s)	Young adult novel Adventure novel
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date	1911
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	200+ pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Followed by	Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain, is Volume 7 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.

[edit] Plot summary

Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figured out the formula of manufacturing a limitless fortune in diamonds. But these rogues will stop at nothing to keep their secret. Tom & friends are soon captured and left to die in a collapsing mountain.

[edit] Inventions & Innovation

Although the story still revolves around invention, Tom did not have any part in the invention. In this story, the major invention, and plot device, is a diamond-making machine, utilizing the power of harnessed lightning. Unfortunately for Tom and friends, they were never able to get close enough to the machinery to determine the secret to making diamonds.