Part 8 (1/2)
Fenwick proudly, as he threw open the doors of the shed, and Toood-sized gas bag hovering over it, and a strange collection of rudders, wings and planes sticking out from either side Ali inventor a mass of machinery
”There she is! That's the WHIZZER!” cried Mr Fenwick, with pride in his voice ”What do you think of her, Tom Swift?”
Tom did not immediately answer He looked dubiously at the electric airshi+p and shrugged his shoulders It seelance, that, it would never sail
CHAPTER VII
MAKING SOME CHANGES
”Well, what do you think of it?” asked Mr Fenwick again, as Tom walked all about the electric airshi+p, still without speaking
”It's big, certainly,” remarked the lad
”Bless my shoe horn! I should say it was!” burst out Mr Daer than your RED CLOUD, Too? That's what I want to know,” insisted the inventor
”Do you think it will fly, Toh a small model which I made floated in the air for some time
But it wouldn't move, except as the wind blew it”
”It would be hard to say, without a careful exae one will fly or not,” answered Toested Mr Fenwick ”I'll pay you well for your time and trouble”
”Oh if I can help a fellow inventor, and assist in lad to do it without pay,”
retorted Too in the cabin, and look at the motor That's the ate”
There was certainly plenty of machinery in the cabin of the WHIZZER
Most of it was electrical, for on that power Mr Fenwick intended to depend to sail through space There was a new type of gasolene engine, small but very powerful, and this served to operate a dynamo In turn, the dynamo operated an electrical motor, as Mr
Fenwick had an idea that better, and more uniforasolene e which Toe electric storage battery
This was intended to operate the electric motor in case of a break to the ood idea There were various other apparatuses, machines, and appliances, the nature of which Toather from a mere casual view
”Well, what's your opinion, now that you have seen the motor?” asked Mr Fenwick, anxiously
”I'd have to see it in operation,” said Toht after dinner,” declared the inventor ”I'd like to start it now, and hear what you have to say, but I'ry after your trip froives one an appetite”
”I don't knohether it's that or not,” answered Tory”
”Then we'll postpone the trial until after dinner It must be ready by this time, I think,” said Mr Fenwick, as he led the way back to the house It was nificently furnished, for the inventor was aas a ”fad” An excellent dinner was served, and then the three returned once more to the shed where the WHIZZER was kept
”Shall I start the motor in here?” asked Mr Fenwick, when he had summoned several of theinventor