02677cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000210011324500360013426400510017030000470022133600260026833700260029433800360032050000310035650801370038752015700052453400640209465300220215865300580218065300330223865300370227185600430230877599UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20261930utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aAppleton, Victor10aTom Swift and his big dirigible 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-01  aDelphine Lettau, Greg Weeks, Cindy Beyer, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net  a"Tom Swift and his big dirigible" by Victor Appleton is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on young inventor Tom Swift as he undertakes the construction of the largest all‑metal airship, the Silver Cloud, for the impatient industrialist Martin Jardine, while balancing family life and rising suspicions of sabotage. Alongside Tom are his wife Mary, his aging father, loyal friend Ned Newton, the exuberant Mr. Damon, and a dubious dwarf whose arrival hints at trouble.

The opening of the story introduces Jardine’s bold commission: an all‑metal dirigible built of his new “oralum” alloy, able to carry fifty passengers and range ten thousand miles; Tom hesitates, then agrees despite vacation plans. A blaze in Tom’s House on Wheels—sparked by stored fireworks for Mary’s birthday—adds early tension, while work on the Silver Cloud proceeds amid Ned’s doubts about Jardine. Tom’s father faints from overwork and the mountain trip to Mt. Camon is postponed, then resumed; en route, a dwarf named James Chock appears with Jardine’s letter, is cautiously admitted to the works, later quits after clashing with Koku, and is flagged by a traveling marionette master as untrustworthy. A dramatic landslide sweeps the House on Wheels down a mountainside, but Tom steers them to safety; they reach a drought‑stricken Mt. Camon hotel, meet Mr. Damon, and encounter an erratic gardener, Cosso Tobini, whose hostility draws a manager’s rebuke as the scene closes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930  aAdventure stories  aSwift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction  aAirships -- Juvenile fiction  aForest fires -- Juvenile fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77599