From the Earth to the Moon. A Gun Club, a Giant Cannon, and a Plan to Fire Three Men at the Moon

Bored with peacetime and desperate for a project worthy of their talents, the members of Baltimore's Gun Club settle on the only challenge left: building a cannon powerful enough to fire a projectile clear out of Earth's gravity and onto the surface of the Moon. What starts as an engineering fantasy becomes a genuine transatlantic sensation - and then, improbably, an actual departure. Jules Verne's giddy, meticulously calculated space-launch adventure, decades ahead of the technology it imagines.
A founding text of science fiction for readers who love watching wildly ambitious ideas get worked out with total scientific seriousness.