From the Earth to the Moon E-Book

Jules Verne.

• Herausgeber: Jules Verne
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing...

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From the Earth to the Moon

by

Jules Verne

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The Gun Club

President Barbicane’s Communication

Effect of the President’s Communication

Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge

The Romance of the Moon

Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States

The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball

History of the Cannon

The Question of the Powders

One Enemy v. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends

Florida and Texas

Urbi Et Orbi

Stones Hill

Pickaxe and Trowel

The Fete of the Casting

The Columbiad

A Telegraphic Dispatch

The Passenger of the Atlanta

A Monster Meeting

Attack and Riposte

How a Frenchman Manages an Affair

The New Citizen of the United States

The Projectile-Vehicle

The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains

Final Details

Fire!

Foul Weather

A New Star

Chapter 1

The Gun Club

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.

But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.