Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove by Bob Pflugfelder

These were animatronic versions of famous scientists-manikins, basically, that were silent and motionless at the moment. “I mean, tonight’s the museum’s grand reopening!” Nick and Tesla skidded into a right turn past Percy Spencer, who was staring in wonderment at a glob of gooey chocolate, the first in the world to be melted by microwaves. blue-footed boobies being a species of seabird native to the South Pacific. “Plus, Charles Darwin had fallen over and crushed that flock of blue-footed boobies.” She meant models of blue-footed boobies.

“Well,” Tesla said to her brother, “who did you expect the museum director to call this morning when she found out that Nikola Tesla’s head was loose?” The pair slowed a bit to loop around René Descartes, who was lying in bed looking up at the fly that would inspire him to create the Cartesian coordinate system. The day before yesterday it seemed as though the job was all wrapped up. Their uncle and his kinda-sorta girlfriend Hiroko Sakurai were both robotics experts, and they’d been hired to save the exhibition after delays and malfunctions resulted in the firing of the original designer. “Uncle Newt and Hiroko finished their work two days ago.” “Do you realize,” Nick gasped to his sister as the two of them dashed toward the far end of the Hall of Science, “that we weren’t even supposed to be here today?” They passed Marie Curie sitting behind the wheel of one of the field hospital X-ray trucks she created to help wounded soldiers during World War I. They had a pretty good idea where animatronic Nikola Tesla’s head had ended up-and why it would be a really good idea to retrieve it as soon as possible. Nick and Tesla didn’t answer their uncle’s question. They were already bolting for the nearest exit. He and his twin sister, Tesla, each shared part of Nikola Tesla’s name thanks to a family tradition handed down to their father, Albert Einstein Holt, from his father, Thomas Edison Holt. “Uh-oh,” said Nick, whose full name was Nikola Copernicus Holt. Of course, lacking his head and hands, he didn’t look much like Nikola Tesla at the moment. The animatronic Tesla, made to look like famous inventor Nikola Tesla. Which meant it was the other Tesla in the room who was missing hands and a head. She said the words with her mouth, which was on her face, which was on her head. You had it tucked under your arm when you went to get a soda.” It was Tesla Holt, Nick’s twin sister, who answered this time. Nick’s uncle Newt was hunched over Tesla’s hands, which lay palms up on the portable work bench in front of him. Nick Holt turned and stared at her in surprise. “Has anyone seen Tesla’s head?” Hiroko asked.

Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove by Bob Pflugfelder