Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune

oth, the young banker found his chum staring rather moodily at the

s no go;

nd I thought sure I h

n't your firs

er a month, and I can't seem to get any farth

sn't any image

you caught any glimpse of me in you

you are going to try and make th

is end, and only see the person he is talking to, not being seen himself, unless he wi

Ned. "It's too hard

etal plate. Perhaps I may have to try using a sensitized plate, and develop it later, though I do want to get the machine d

ard the end of Tom's remarks. A strange look ca

ah? Dat's de end of de world, ain't it-dat millenium? Golly! Dish yea

combination that is a peculiar conductor of electricity. The more light tha

queer stuf

lephone experiment, though I might try the metal plate method, as they did b

Ned. "Remember, Tom, I'm not up on

that name from the Greek word for moon, on account of selenium being so similar, in

it?" Ned wa

the form of selenides, the more important minerals of that kind

ing up his hands. "Stop it, Tom!" he pleaded. "Yo

native sulphur. Selenium is usually obtained from the flue-dust or chamber deposits of some factory where sulphuric acid is made. They take this dust and trea

There are several varieties, and I

a little fun. You've been poking away at this too long. Come on out on the lake, and have a ride in the motor boat. It w

telephone booth, trying to get an image on a plate, and not succeeding, has gotten on my nerves. I want to write out

the chemist, the young inventor closed up his shop, and went

rst purchased, some years ago, but a

ride," remarked Ned, as he got in the c

id the young inventor. "When I get going on a thing

" aske

I wanted to explain to him about it. He might not know how to work it. I left word with father, though, that if he came

too far,"

t to let Halling go up until I come back. He may not come for hi

, s

promised to see the bird-man if he called. Then Ned and To

ful boat, and comfortable. It swept on down the lake, and many other

observed Ned, as they went

otor. "I wonder what's got into her?" he said, in some annoyance,

a new spark plug

I'll stop an

ded his boat over toward shore, in

y behind him, and at the same time a

se that way? Look out, or I'll run you down

om astern, a powerful red motor boat, at the wheel of which s

. "I can't stop so short! Loo

t at the fellow, was about to shift the

over at a dangerous angle, while, with a rending, splintering sound of wood, the big red