The First Men in the Moon
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Герберт Уэллс. The First Men in the Moon
Chapter 1. Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne
Chapter 2. The First Making of Cavorite
Chapter 3. The Building of the sphere
Chapter 4. Inside the Sphere
Chapter 5. The Journey to the Moon
Chapter 6. The Landing on the Moon
Chapter 7. Sunrise on the Moon
Chapter 8. A Lunar Morning
Chapter 9. Prospecting Begins
Chapter 10. Lost Men in the Moon
Chapter 11. The Mooncalf Pastures
Chapter 12. The Selenite's Face
Chapter 13. Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions
Chapter 14. Experiments in intercourse
Chapter 15. The Giddy Bridge
Chapter 16. Points of View
Chapter 17. The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers
Chapter 18. In the Sunlight
Chapter 19. Mr. Bedford Alone
Chapter 20. Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space
Chapter 21. Mr. Bedford at Littlestone
Chapter 22. The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee
Chapter 23. An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor
Chapter 24. The Natural History of the Selenites
Chapter 25. The Grand Lunar
Chapter 26. The Last Message Cavor sent to the Earth
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But Cavor's fears were groundless, so far as the actual making was concerned. On the 14th of October, 1899, this incredible substance was made!
Oddly enough, it was made at last by accident, when Mr. Cavor least expected it. He had fused together a number of metals and certain other things – I wish I knew the particulars now! – and he intended to leave the mixture a week and then allow it to cool slowly. Unless he had miscalculated, the last stage in the combination would occur when the stuff sank to a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. But it chanced that, unknown to Cavor, dissension had arisen about the furnace tending.
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Even with my aid we found some little difficulty, and meanwhile we kept at work restoring the laboratory. There was plenty to do before it became absolutely necessary to decide upon the precise form and method of our second attempt. Our only hitch was the strike of the three labourers, who objected to my activity as a foreman. But that matter we compromised after two days' delay.
"Oh! sulphur, ores, gold perhaps, possibly new elements."
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