Excerpts from the Book 'From The Earth To The Moon':

... Matson but still we need not dream of that expedient. And why not? demanded the colonel. Because their ideas of progress in the Old World are contrary to ...
... in order to catch stray bits of news from the interior. Nevertheless the vast hall presented a curious spectacle. Its immense area was singularly ...
... velocity will be continually decreasing, it will occupy 300,000 seconds, that is 83hrs. 20m. in reaching the point where the attraction of ...
... and that its heat has no appreciable effect upon the thermometer. As to the phenomenon known as the ashy light, it is explained naturally by the effect ...
... be deranged in ages to come. There remains but the third class, the superstitious. These worthies were not content merely to rest in ignorance they must know ...
... back sufficient light to enable us to perceive objects of lesser magnitude. Well, then, what do you propose to do? asked the general. Would ...
... Bale, proposed its employment for purposes of war. This powder, now called pyroxyle, or fulminating cotton, is prepared with great facility by simply ...
... on the point. At the last experiment the cylindro-conical projectiles of Barbicane stuck like so many pins in the Nicholl plates. On that day the ...
... up. Certain countries distinguished themselves by their liberality others untied their purse-strings with less facility-a matter of temperament. Figures are, ...
... dismounted, seized his instruments, and began to note his position with extreme exactness. The little band, drawn up in the rear, watched his proceedings ...
... dangerously injured by the splinters of stone. But their ardor never relaxed, night or day. By day they worked under the rays of the scorching sun by ...
... the molten metal still some considerable time must elapse before they could arrive at any certainty upon the matter. The patience of the members of ...
... to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! Distance ...
... any question to put to me, you will, I fear, sadly embarrass a poor man like myself still I will do my best to answer you. Up to this point the president ...
... you have just put your finger upon the true and only difficulty nevertheless, I have too good an opinion of the industrial genius of the Americans ...
... came to call upon him, and requested permission to return with him to their native country. Singular hallucination! said he to Barbicane, after having dismissed ...
... far to annihilate altogether the effects of the shock. Nothing now remained but to go! Two days later Michel Ardan received a message from the President ...
... but our projectile-vehicle is no Noah's ark, from which it differs both in dimensions and object. Let us confine ourselves to possibilities. After ...
... being ready at last, it remained to place the projectile in the Columbiad, an operation abundantly accompanied by dangers and difficulties. The enormous ...
... which had been so long gathering, and at night the semi-disc of the orb of night rode majestically amid the soft constellations of the sky. From ...