From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <10h1kig$2i7rv$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >On 12/5/2025 6:44 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >>> Would modern students find the mysteries compelling, tame or   
   >>> ridiculously dated? (those students that (1) can read and (2) do read).   
   >>   
   >> All of the above.  I remember reading the original Hardy Boys books and   
   >> learning about rumble seats and vulcanizing machines and dictaphones.   
   >> Today that is even more dated and alien but that might make it more   
   >interesting   
   >> to kids.   
   >>   
   >> What is most incredibly dated are the original Tom Swift books, and they   
   were   
   >> incredibly dated when I read them in the sixties.  Swiftboats that are   
   >> propelled by electromagnets that repel the earth's magnetic field!  Flying   
   >> machines that operate by electrical repulsion!  This is the world I was   
   >> hoping to someday live in.   
   >   
   >I read those too, but remember, this is Tom Swift    
   >   
   >The original Tom Swift appeared in 1910, with "Tom Swift   
   >and His Motorcycle".   
   >   
      
   And he didn't even invent it, just repaired it.   
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