The Wireless Boys of Cobb Point

New England, 1907. Storm season. Sabotage on the coast. The Wireless Boys of Cobb Point is an electric-age adventure novel for readers who love invention, mystery, wireless telegraphy, dynamos, and the crackling thrill of the spark-gap. When fifteen-year-old Nate Corliss and his ragtag workshop crew (a lighthouse keeper's daughter, a runaway telegraph apprentice, and a half-blind ex-navy electrician) start wiring up push-buttons, induction coils, and a home-built battery for a harbor burglar-alarm, they stumble onto something bigger: a coded message crackling out of the dark, a wrecking gang using a fake lighthouse signal to lure ships onto the rocks, and a race against a coming nor'easter to build a wireless telegraph strong enough to call for help before the next ship goes down. Part mystery, part survival adventure, part hands-on invention story, this novel is packed with the real mechanics of early electricity: batteries and cells, magnets and induction coils, annunciators and burglar-alarms, current-detectors and galvanometers, electrical resistance, the telephone, line and wireless telegraphy, dynamos and motors, electro-plating, frictional electricity (Wimshurst machines, Leyden jars), and the birth of electric light, heat, power, and traction.
Readers get Edison-era history, Morse code, coastal shipwreck lore, lighthouse keeping, smuggling, sabotage, and a coming-of-age friendship story, all wired together into one continuous circuit of danger and discovery. Fans of: electricity adventure novel, wireless telegraphy fiction, 1900s historical adventure, boy inventors, Edison era, Morse code mystery, lighthouse thriller, shipwreck sabotage, dynamo and motor, electro-plating, induction coil, battery and cells, coastal New England, storm survival, coming-of-age STEM adventure, steampunk-adjacent historical fiction, young adult invention story, telegraph code thriller, electric age mystery, DIY science adventure.