Download or read book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle written by Victor Appleton and published by Tutis Digital Pub. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility" said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. "It is one of those things that are coming" and he flashed his son Tom Swift a knowing smile. It had been a topic of conversation between them before the visitor from the West had been seated before the library fire and had sampled one of the elder Swift's good cigars. (Excerpt)