From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Verne Jules. From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
CHAPTER I. THE GUN CLUB
CHAPTER II. PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER III. EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER IV. REPLY FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER V. THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON
CHAPTER VI. THE PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND BELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER VII. THE HYMN OF THE CANNON-BALL
CHAPTER VIII. HISTORY OF THE CANNON
CHAPTER IX. THE QUESTION OF THE POWDERS
CHAPTER X. ONE ENEMY v. TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF FRIENDS
CHAPTER XI. FLORIDA AND TEXAS
CHAPTER XII. URBI ET ORBI
CHAPTER XIII. STONES HILL
CHAPTER XIV. PICKAXE AND TROWEL
CHAPTER XV. THE FÊTE OF THE CASTING
CHAPTER XVI. THE COLUMBIAD
CHAPTER XVII. A TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PASSENGER OF THE "ATLANTA."
CHAPTER XIX. A MONSTER MEETING
CHAPTER XX. ATTACK AND RIPOSTE
CHAPTER XXI. HOW A FRENCHMAN MANAGES AN AFFAIR
CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PROJECTILE-VEHICLE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TELESCOPE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER XXV. FINAL DETAILS
CHAPTER XXVI. FIRE!
CHAPTER XXVII. FOUL WEATHER
CHAPTER XXVIII. A NEW STAR
ROUND THE MOON:
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. RECAPITULATING THE FIRST PART OF THIS WORK, AND SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND
CHAPTER I. FROM TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN P.M
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST HALF-HOUR
CHAPTER III. THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER
CHAPTER IV. A LITTLE ALGEBRA
CHAPTER V. THE COLD OF SPACE
CHAPTER VI. QUESTION AND ANSWER
CHAPTER VII. A MOMENT OF INTOXICATION
CHAPTER VIII. AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES
CHAPTER IX. THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DEVIATION
CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON
CHAPTER XI. FANCY AND REALITY
CHAPTER XII. OROGRAPHIC DETAILS
CHAPTER XIII. LUNAR LANDSCAPES
CHAPTER XIV. THE NIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR HOURS AND A HALF
CHAPTER XV. HYPERBOLA OR PARABOLA
CHAPTER XVI. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
CHAPTER XVII. TYCHO
CHAPTER XVIII. GRAVE QUESTIONS
CHAPTER XIX. A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE
CHAPTER XX. THE SOUNDINGS OF THE "SUSQUEHANNA."
CHAPTER XXI. J. T. MASTON RECALLED
CHAPTER XXII. RECOVERED FROM THE SEA
CHAPTER XXIII. THE END
Отрывок из книги
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 amongst 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 rivalled 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.
.....
"Go and propose it to the President of the United States," cried J. T. Maston, "and see how he will receive you."
"Bah!" growled Bilsby between the four teeth which the war had left him; "that will never do!"
.....