From the Earth to the Moon | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 07/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon


00:01:01 1 Plot
00:03:32 2 Influence on popular culture
00:07:30 2.1 Disneyland Paris
00:08:53 2.2 Project Epicus version
00:09:17 3 See also



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From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous  Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing.
The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate. However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers.
The character of Michel Ardan, the French member of the party in the novel, was inspired by the real-life photographer Félix Nadar.