From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   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".   
      
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