Young Adult Chapman, Allen: The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass, v1, 17th Feb 2019

[HarryT]

This is the fourth book in the juvenile "Radio Boys" series, published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1922. The publisher's advertisement described the series as follows:

"Here is a series that gives full details of radio work both in sending and receiving--how large and small sets can be made and operated, and with this real information there are stories about the Radio Boys and their adventures. Each story is a record of thrilling adventures--rescues, narrow escapes from death, daring exploits in which radio play a main part. Each volume is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date, and accurate that all modern boys will peruse them with delight. Each volume has a forward by Jack Binns, the well known radio expert."

"Who the heck is Jack Binns?" Glad you asked! Over a century ago, New York held a parade to honour Jack Binns, the 24-year-old British wireless operator of the White Star liner Republic, whose quick thinking and persistence helped save scores of lives when the liner was rammed by a cargo ship in the freezing water off the coast of Nantucket on the early morning of January 23, 1909. Binns continued to work as a radio operator until 1912, when he turned down an assignment on the ill-fated Titanic, after which he took up a career in journalism and writing forewords to the Radio Boys series for Edward Stratemeyer.

The original description of the book is:

This story opens in the woods where the Radio Boys find themselves confronted most unexpectedly by a big bear. Then, after some interesting experiments with radio, the scene is shifted to Mountain Pass, where the lads, after a thrilling ride through a blinding snowstorm, put up at a big hotel filled with winter guests. Here they presently learn that a Wall Street broker is in danger of being defrauded through a stock transaction and that the man's wife is sick and must have expert medical attention. All telephone and telegraph wires are down, and how the Radio Boys came to the front and got a doctor by wireless, and sent messages through to the Stock Exchange makes reading no reader would care to miss.

Converted and cleaned up from the original PG source, and the original cover added.

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