Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
Author Victor Appleton
Original title Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain
Country United States
Language English
Series Tom Swift
Genre Young adult novel Adventure novel
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date
 1911
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 200+ pp
Preceded by Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Followed by Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
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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.

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.

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.


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