The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow by Tim Kehoe

Author:Tim Kehoe [KEHOE, TIM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316081719
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

IDEA NO. 50

18

Vincent lay in bed with a pillow over his head. Gwen was doing a late night load of laundry and Vincent knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep until the spin cycle was complete.

He was devastated. He had spent his entire life trying to be a toy inventor. Now he had a chance to get his inventions in front of one of his favorite inventors and he had no ideas. He had no idea where his ideas even came from, but he wished one would come to him now. He also wished he hadn’t left his notebooks sealed away in his lab.

Vincent remembered reading all about Mr. Whiz buying the Tesla artifacts. Clearly, anyone willing to pay ten million dollars for the Tesla inventions had to be a big Tesla fan. Maybe if Vincent invented a Tesla-like toy it would get Mr. Whiz’s attention. Tesla had invented the world’s first remote-controlled toy. Maybe Vincent could create a new type of remote-controlled toy.

Vincent sat up and stared at the poster of Nikola Tesla hanging on his bedroom wall. Tesla was standing in a large room with a huge two-story Tesla coil that was throwing bolts of lightning all around the room. Tesla was surrounded by the lightning. Vincent could see from Tesla’s hair that the electric discharge from the large coil was creating a lot of wind. Vincent thought about the wind he felt when Stella had cranked the Tesla device in the basement of the Met. If that small device had given off that much wind, Vincent imagined that standing next to the large coil in the picture must have been like standing in a wind tunnel. Tesla could have flown a kite in the room. An indoor kite.

“Yeah, an indoor kite,” Vincent said out loud.

That was it! Vincent had his toy idea. A windless, indoor kite. It was Idea No. 50 and he had come up with the idea by himself. No flashes of light. No darkness. But unfortunately, unlike his other ideas, this one had not come to him whole and complete. He would now need to figure out how it would work and how he would build it.

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