The Adventures of the Cannon Club Members
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The Adventures of the Cannon Club Members
19.99 €
The science fiction novel "From the Earth to the Moon in 97 Hours 20 Minutes" is the fourth work by the French science fiction writer and adventure classic Jules Gabriel Verne, written in 1865. In this novel, members of the Cannon Club, founded in the United States during the Civil War, build a massive cannon and send a projectile containing three daring explorers to the Moon.
This method of travel to the Moon seems unlikely today, but in the mid-19th century, it was a bold decision, unparalleled in world literature. In his predecessors (the books of Dominique Gonzalez, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edgar Allan Poe, and others), heroes traveled to our satellite in a fantastical, frankly impossible manner; Jules Verne utilizes all the advances of contemporary science and technology to achieve the same goal. He describes in detail the material, financial, and political difficulties of such a project, and recounts the detailed history of the preparation and launch of the spacecraft. Long before the dawn of the space age, the author envisions the use of an air regeneration device based on potassium chlorate and caustic soda, the construction of a rocket-shaped car made of aluminum—a very expensive material in the 19th century, but today an indispensable material for constructing space modules; finally, he locates his spaceport in Florida—not far from the site of the actual spaceport from which manned flights to the moon were launched.
This method of travel to the Moon seems unlikely today, but in the mid-19th century, it was a bold decision, unparalleled in world literature. In his predecessors (the books of Dominique Gonzalez, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edgar Allan Poe, and others), heroes traveled to our satellite in a fantastical, frankly impossible manner; Jules Verne utilizes all the advances of contemporary science and technology to achieve the same goal. He describes in detail the material, financial, and political difficulties of such a project, and recounts the detailed history of the preparation and launch of the spacecraft. Long before the dawn of the space age, the author envisions the use of an air regeneration device based on potassium chlorate and caustic soda, the construction of a rocket-shaped car made of aluminum—a very expensive material in the 19th century, but today an indispensable material for constructing space modules; finally, he locates his spaceport in Florida—not far from the site of the actual spaceport from which manned flights to the moon were launched.
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