Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Frank Einstein series #1)
Five seconds between light and sound for every mile One mile away Frank calculates using the difference between the almost instant speed of light and the much slower speed of sound Right on time Are you sure this will work asks Watson pulling on long yellow rubber dishwashing gloves to protect himself Because man this seems pure crazy It's perfect Frank answers Perfect my mom and dad are gone again on one of their travel hot spot trips Perfect Grampa Al let me set up my lab in his garage and use all his great repair shop junk And perfect we can use this lightning to supercharge my SmartBot to life and win the Midville Science Prize Lightning flashes Thunder booms That hundred thousand cash prize will pay off all Grampa Al s bills And the SmartBot will help us invent anything else we want Frank secures the final copper wire in his SmartBot s brain What could go wrong Well remember that time we were making race cars Frank holds out his hand like a doctor in an oper ating room Vacuum switch and you bolted the jet engine onto the baby
GPS unit and you decided it would be more fuel efficient without the brakes Skull piece I can show you the scar Skull piece Watson looks around the workbench covered with the bits and parts of twenty years worth of mechani cal electrical and plumbing repairs He picks up a shiny metal piece with two slots You mean this toaster thing Flash Frank looks up at the sky light and counts One MM thousand one One thousand Boom 0 0 Less than half a mile Yes Skull piece I Now Watson tosses the toaster skull to
Frank screws the piece into place He lays the SmartBot in a rusty red wagon bed roped into a har ness looped over a pulley and wired into the motor of the garage door opener He stands back and gives his work one last look A robot that will be able to think learn and become smarter and smarter It just needs this lightning power to come alive Frank punches the garage door opener button Hmmmmmmmm The motor hums The rope tight ens The SmartBot rises up to the garage roof on Frank's old wagon operating table as the skylight opens Yes says Frank Einstein with a crazy laugh His hair and lab coat whip around in the sudden gust of wind blowing into the lab He grabs his barbecue fork switch to transfer O power to the SmartBot just as the lightning strikes Ready Watson yells Frank Watson tightens the strap on his safety goggles and unconsciously shakes his head no But he gives Frank a floppy yellow thumbs up yes anyway A wild wind swirls through the
