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1 I | CHAPTER I~THE GUN CLUB~During the War of the
2 I | formed the nucleus of the “Gun Club.” In a single month
3 I | scientific exponents of the Gun Club, was “proportional
4 I | their projectiles.”~The Gun Club once founded, it is
5 I | the “Book of Honor” of the Gun Club; and of those who made
6 I | Pitcairn that throughout the Gun Club there was not quite
7 I | together with grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound
8 I | and the members of the Gun Club, erstwhile so noisy
9 I | upon a time! One invented a gun, and hardly was it cast,
10 I | say that one can’t point a gun without having first cast
11 I | good-by to the members of the Gun Club, and go and bury myself
12 I | 3.~The president of the Gun Club has the honor to inform
13 II | toward the saloons of the Gun Club at No. 21 Union Square.
14 II | battered by the shots of the Gun Club, assortments of rammers
15 II | a rare exception in the Gun Club, all his limbs complete.
16 II | plunged the members of the Gun Club in deplorable inactivity.
17 II | of the antecedents of the Gun Club; and it cannot fail
18 II | for the Moon!” roared the Gun Club, with one voice.~“The
19 III | of congratulation to the Gun Club, together with offers
20 III | memorable meeting of the Gun Club, the manager of an
21 IV | in the board-room of the Gun Club. There, after some
22 IV | confidence reposed in it by the Gun Club. So, after two days,
23 IV | to the President~ of the Gun Club at Baltimore.~ CAMBRIDGE,
24 IV | members of the~Baltimore Gun Club, our staff was immediately
25 IV | Cambridge by the members of the Gun Club:~To sum up—~1st. The
26 IV | zenith.~The members of the Gun Club ought, therefore, without
27 V | earth’s satellite, which the Gun Club undertook to perfect
28 VI | upon the enterprise of the Gun Club. The letter of the
29 VII | working committee of the Gun Club. The duty of this committee
30 VII | the knights, there was a gun of the fortress of St. Elmo
31 VIII | must evidently be, then, a gun of great range, since the
32 VIII | Ordinarily the length of a gun is twenty to twenty-five
33 VIII | weighing 30,000 pounds, the gun would only have a length
34 VIII | length, and to construct a gun of nine hundred feet.”~The
35 VIII | said Elphinstone: “is our gun to be rifled?”~“No, certainly
36 VIII | that a shot quits a rifled gun less rapidly than it does
37 VIII | the weight of a cast-iron gun with a bore of nine feet
38 IX | which is injurious to a gun destined to perform long
39 IX | that the resistance of a gun, constructed under the given
40 X | of the enterprise of the Gun Club. It followed day by
41 X | against the attempt of the Gun Club. He attacked it furiously
42 X | enemy the president of the Gun Club had never seen. Fortunate
43 X | challenging the president of the Gun Club to break it. Barbicane,
44 X | two hundred yards of the gun. Barbicane still obstinate
45 X | communication was made to the Gun Club, the captain’s wrath
46 X | attacked the labors of the Gun Club, published a number
47 X | from the president of the Gun Club. The latter did not
48 X | for the experiment of the Gun Club will not be forthcoming.~
49 XI | Observatory of Cambridge, the gun must be fired perpendicularly
50 XI | a general meeting of the Gun Club, Barbicane produced
51 XI | influential members of the Gun Club were besieged day and
52 XI | deputies. The members of the Gun Club could not decide to
53 XI | different members of the Gun Club by name. The magistrates
54 XII | With such a balance the Gun Club might begin operations
55 XII | in to the credit of the Gun Club at the close of the
56 XII | that the enterprise of the Gun Club was contrary to the “
57 XII | At this intimation the Gun Club merely shrugged its
58 XII | into the treasury of the Gun Club.~Let no one be surprised
59 XII | Barbicane, president of the Gun Club, of the one part, and
60 XIII | decision was arrived at by the Gun Club, to the disparagement
61 XIII | position of the proposed gun. So, without a moment’s
62 XIII | said the secretary of the Gun Club.~“Not exactly,” replied
63 XIII | offer to the members of the Gun Club all the conditions
64 XIV | materials. The members of the Gun Club remained at Tampa Town,
65 XIV | bounties offered by the Gun Club, he had enlisted a
66 XIV | Barbicane and the members of the Gun Club warmly congratulated
67 XV | the casting of the Rodman gun; they were trapezoidal in
68 XV | delegation of members of the Gun Club, who had made the voyage
69 XVI | patience of the members of the Gun Club was sorely tried during
70 XVI | exclaimed the president of the Gun Club, with an immense sigh
71 XVI | mysteries of the colossal gun. The fare for the descent
72 XVI | of visitors enabled the Gun Club to pocket nearly five
73 XVI | were the members of the Gun Club. This privilege was
74 XVI | to her satellite, to the Gun Club, the Union, the Moon,
75 XVII | works undertaken by the Gun Club had now virtually come
76 XVII | now in the archives of the Gun Club:~ FRANCE, PARIS,~30
77 XVIII | which the president of the Gun Club had instituted regarding
78 XVIII | replied the president of the Gun Club.~“All right! how d’
79 XIX | principal members of the Gun Club. He was supported on
80 XIX | point the president of the Gun Club had been satisfied
81 XX | and the president of the Gun Club shared with Michel
82 XX | and the president of the Gun Club.~Barbicane, free at
83 XX | spoken, the president of the Gun Club and the captain parted.
84 XXI | visitor. The secretary of the Gun Club burst into the room.
85 XXI | worthy secretary of the Gun Club thought that his president
86 XXI | then, was Nicholl, his gun on the ground, forgetful
87 XXII | When the secretary of the Gun Club found that Barbicane
88 XXIII | afterward the secretary of the Gun Club appeared at the top
89 XXIV | subscription, the president of the Gun Club had credited the Observatory
90 XXIV | At the period when the Gun Club essayed their great
91 XXIV | elevation, nevertheless, the Gun Club were compelled to be
92 XXIV | before doing its duty to the Gun Club, rendered immense services
93 XXV | Michel Ardan carried all the Gun Club with him in his enthusiasm.
94 XXVI | accompanied by the members of the Gun Club, and by deputations
95 XXVI | with the duty of firing the gun by means of an electric
96 XXVIII| great experiment of the Gun Club.~ LONG’S PEAK, December
97 XXVIII| then the experiment of the Gun Club can have no other result
98 XXVIII| science. The members of the Gun Club, a circle of artillerymen
99 XXVIII| of the Observatory, the gun destined to launch the projectile
100 XXVIII| principal members of the Gun Club, President Barbicane,
101 XXVIII| position and nature of the gun, and the quality and quantity
102 XXVIII| pounds. Second, that the gun should be a Columbiad cast
103 XXVIII| the Rocky Mountains, the Gun Club had a gigantic telescope
104 XXVIII| honorable secretary of the Gun Club wished himself to observe
105 I | projectile, at the bottom of a gun 900 feet long! And under
106 II | raised the president of the Gun Club and laid him on the
107 VII | certainly. A ball without a gun!”~“The gun,” replied Barbicane, “
108 VII | ball without a gun!”~“The gun,” replied Barbicane, “can
109 VII | greater than that of our gun would suffice to send a
110 VII | all the members of the Gun Club, and they will be well
111 IX | already been rammed into each gun. They had, then, nothing
112 IX | perpendicularity of the gun was exact, its direction
113 X | moon in the mouth of the gun. A straight line drawn through
114 XVIII | in the projectile of the Gun Club, after having founded
115 XIX | ram the gunner into the gun. My faith! fine savants!
116 XIX | should the projectile of the Gun Club escape this natural
117 XIX | more their friends of the Gun Club, and the dearest of
118 XX | ardent supporters of the Gun Club, who had married an
119 XXI | was the projectile of the Gun Club. As to the travelers
120 XXI | give information to the Gun Club of the projectile’s
121 XXI | the vice-president of the Gun Club, Baltimore; the third
122 XXI | of the question. At the Gun Club there was an explosion.
123 XXI | formed in the bosom of the Gun Club. On one side were those
124 XXI | case, it was decided in the Gun Club that Blomsberry brothers,
125 XXI | the vice-president of the Gun Club, and the sub-director
126 XXI | the bursting of his pet gun, which had more than once
127 XXI | that the secretary of the Gun Club had started soon after
128 XXI | of the secretary of the Gun Club constituted a permanent
129 XXI | side; the secretary of the Gun Club maintaining for the
130 XXI | imprudent secretary of the Gun Club.~He reappeared at the
131 XXI | as their friends of the Gun Club, they arrived at San
132 XXII | placed at the disposal of the Gun Club by the Government of
133 XXII | who had subscribed to the Gun Club was directly interested
134 XXII | and the delegates of the Gun Club, were already in their
135 XXII | of the delegates of the Gun Club. Then there was a moment
136 XXII | and the delegates of the Gun Club were mounted on the
137 XXIII | and the delegates of the Gun Club, returning without
138 XXIII | his two companions, the Gun Club decided upon giving
139 XXIII | Maston, secretary of the Gun Club. The carriage was reserved
140 Not | exhaust velocity of the gun >is also a bit confusing.
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