And he has firmly decided that he will ride inside the projectile! - Summary by Mark F. An unknown Frenchman has taken ship and is on the way. The journey must be watched from the tallest peak of the Rocky Mountains through a new telescope with a reflector measuring 16 feet in diameter and a tube reaching skyward 280 feet.Īnd then - a simple telegram upsets all the preparations. His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored 900 feet into the ground, so immense that 1200 smelting furnaces would be needed to create the iron for its casting, so stupendous that 100 tons of guncotton would be needed to loft its cannonball heavenwards. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves! Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. including us.LibriVox recording of From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne. When the sky finally clears up, they discover that the capsule has missed its mark-it's now orbiting the moon. The cannon fires successfully, but it inadvertently triggers a series of harsh weather patterns that make it impossible to track the capsule. With their plans finally set in stone, and December fast approaching, the Gun Club prepares for launch. Luckily, Ardan arrives in the nick of time and averts the situation with an enticing counter-proposal: that the three of them travel to the moon together. Nicholl and Barbicane have been rivals since the Civil War, and Nicholl is fed up, so he challenges Barbicane to a duel. This time, though, the party is cut short by a man named Captain Nicholl. After altering the design to meet Ardan's requests, Barbicane agrees and the wild celebrations start anew. Out of the blue, Barbicane receives a telegram from a Frenchman named Michel Ardan who wants to take a ride inside their moon-bound cannonball. The Gun Club relocates to Tampa to begin production, and things are going swell.
After a fierce competition, Florida wins out. That only gives them two options within the U.S.-Florida and Texas. After speaking to experts at the Cambridge Observatory, the Gun Club decides to launch the shot the following December from a spot near the equator. This news is met with wild celebrations from both the Gun Club and the public at large.īut excitement is the easy part now they have to figure out how to actually get it done.
He suggests that they build a giant cannon, so powerful that it can launch a shot straight to the moon. Luckily, President Barbicane-head of the club-comes to the rescue. With the Civil War over, these illustrious cannon-makers have nothing to do with their time, and they're kind of freaking out.
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