I guess that's the whole explanation."
"I'm inclined to agree with you, Son," said Mr. Swift dryly.
"Don't try to get rid of all the noise at once. Eliminate it by
degrees and it will be safer."
"I guess so," agreed Tom.
By this time a score of workmen from the other shops had
congregated around the one though the roof of which the motor had
been blown. Tom opened the door to assure Jackson and the others
that no one was hurt, and then the young inventor saw the
exploded motor had buried in the dirt a short distance away from
the experiment building.
"Lucky none of us were standing over it when it went up," said
Tom, as he made an inspection of the broken machine. "We'd have
gone through the roof with it."
"She certainly went sailing!" commented Ned. "Must have been a
lot of power there, Tom."
And this was evidenced by the bent and twisted rods that had
held the motor to the testing block, and by the cylinders, some
of which were torn apart as though made of paper instead of heavy
steel. But for the fact that all the force of the explosion was
directly upward, instead of at the sides, none might have been
left alive in the shop.
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