What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Old Kids chapter book. Mad scientist and kid interacting with antigravity spheres/ metal. Some pictures? Published 1940s-1980s. [s]
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Karen wrote: "Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint?Not that one, but from the reviews that's the right feel. I'll have to check out the rest of the series.
- Stayed earthbound (no space).
- metal/mass-y objects (divisible), not paint (film/thin/applied once).
This might be a bit of a stretch lolThe Happy Hollisters and the Castle Rock Mystery ?
The father is an inventor.
Or possibly something from the Tom Swift Jr. Series? https://www.goodreads.com/series/4179...
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Lobstergirl wrote: "Peter Graves?"Got a copy, this is correct.
Peter destroys Houghton's (the mad inventor) house when he misses a catch of a terrible weapon:
"Its core is a small ball of Furloy like those strapped to the floor here. The core has an antigravity force of twenty-five pounds. This core is covered by twenty-eight pounds of duraluminum. The duraluminum is attracted to the ground by gravity but at the contact with the ground, the Furloy becomes activated, multiplying the normal bounce and making the ball bounce higher than the height from which it is dropped."
They recover the six Furloy chunks, placing them in a chest, counter-balanced by rocks. On page 79, Houghton replaces rocks with some of his papers, and takes out too much weight. They grab .22 rifles to weigh it down.
Goal was $45k (inflation is a terrible thing!) to rebuild his mansion.
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Goal was $45k (inflation is a terrible thing!) to rebuild his mansion."Haha, sign of the times! Glad you found Peter Graves.
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Could be as old as 1940s (probably no later than 1970s/1980s).
Really old chapter book, some pictures? - about mad inventor and kid - had antigravity spheres/metal.
One incident, they had them in a chest, and put too many in, so chest started floating away. They solved it by shooting the chest, and adding weight of lead bullets to bring it down (yeah, logic, I know).
Another incident had the kid racing, metal made him lighter, so he could run faster.
They kept losing spheres, and had to come up with different ways to raise money for some goal (to get apparatus fixed to make more?)
Possibly scientist was grandfather of boy.