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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.

"I t