"From the Earth to the Moon" Quotes
A group of post-Civil War American enthusiasts attempts to launch a projectile to the Moon using a massive cannon, blending scientific ambition with adventure and satire.
science fiction | 136 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The projectile must be discharged with a velocity of 12,000 yards per second.
The President of the Gun Club could not have been in a worse humor.
The moon is only the stepping-stone to the planets.
Before a gun had been made which could give a velocity of twelve thousand yards to a second, the moon would traverse its orbit, and return to the point of departure.
We shall have fulfilled our task.
The President of the Gun Club had at last discovered the nearest way to reach the moon!
The projectile was on the point of being launched into space!
The moon will be at the full in fourteen days.
There is no air on the moon, and any animal life is an impossibility.
The projectile was nothing more than an enormous bullet.
