Curiously, however, Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon, rising higher than the Moon, swinging around it, and then landing safely back on Earth. Read more within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Directly inspired by Verne’s story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility – an engineering dream for the industrial age. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on ‘extraordinary voyages.’ His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility - an engineering dream for the industrial age Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr.
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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. LibriVox recording of From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne.
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