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1 Pre | moon— by sending to her a projectile. Their president, Barbicane,
2 Pre | gun destined to launch the projectile had to be fixed in a country
3 Pre | shape and composition of the projectile were discussed, also the
4 Pre | decided: First, that the projectile should be a shell made of
5 Pre | litres of gas in rear of the projectile, would easily carry it toward
6 Pre | asked to be enclosed in the projectile, in order that he might
7 Pre | to start with him in the projectile. The proposition being accepted,
8 Pre | accepted, the shape of the projectile was slightly altered. It
9 Pre | follow the course of the projectile through space. All was then
10 Pre | following the course of the projectile.~At length, to the general
11 Pre | December at 8h. 47m. P.M., the projectile launched by the Columbiad
12 Pre | distance separating the projectile from the lunar surface “
13 Pre | attain their end; or that the projectile, held in one immutable orbit,
14 Pre | concerning the distance of the projectile from the surface of the
15 Pre | could not have been the projectile of the Columbiad. Second,
16 Pre | fate in store for the said projectile; for in making it a satellite
17 Pre | is their journey in the projectile car which is here related
18 I | were already shut up in the projectile.~The three travelers approached
19 I | to the conical top of the projectile. There, an opening made
20 I | his companions inside the projectile, began to close the opening
21 I | lighting and warming of the projectile for a hundred and forty-four
22 I | fire, and thus lighted the projectile looked like a comfortable
23 I | finally enclosed in their projectile. This chronometer was set
24 I | Remember that, when the projectile starts, it matters little
25 I | couches had been placed in the projectile. Nicholl and Barbicane placed
26 I | five thousand because the projectile will rise more than six
27 I | will have burst, and the projectile with it; and Barbicane will
28 I | and we are enclosed in a projectile, at the bottom of a gun
29 I | feet long! And under this projectile are rammed 400,000 pounds
30 I | shock was felt, and the projectile, under the force of six
31 II | the constructors of the projectile obtained any happy result?
32 II | cast one glimpse into the projectile, what would he have seen?~
33 II | anywhere! The wonderful projectile was not even heated under
34 II | still breathe? or was the projectile nothing now but a metal
35 II | after the departure of the projectile, one of the bodies moved,
36 II | troubled themselves about the projectile; their first thought had
37 II | decide on the position of the projectile. Its apparent immovability,
38 II | the question. Perhaps the projectile was unwinding its course
39 II | the temperature inside the projectile was singularly high. The
40 II | through the partitions of the projectile, is produced by its friction
41 II | thousand dollars because the projectile has risen more than six
42 II | inexplicable phenomenon. The projectile had started, and consequently
43 II | the opposite side of the projectile, another in the top of the
44 II | and under openings in the projectile.~Barbicane and his two companions
45 II | darkness proved that the projectile had left the earth, for
46 II | darkness also showed that the projectile had passed the atmospheric
47 II | intersect the passage of the projectile. This body revolved upon
48 II | What is that? another projectile?”~Barbicane did not answer.
49 II | deplorable results; either the projectile would deviate from its path,
50 II | an optical illusion the projectile seemed to be throwing itself
51 II | several hundred yards from the projectile and disappeared, not so
52 II | enough for a poor little projectile to walk through without
53 II | which, had it struck the projectile, would have much embarrassed
54 II | glass the moon filled the projectile with a brilliant light.
55 II | air in the interior of the projectile with silvery reflections.
56 II | window at the bottom of the projectile, which would allow them
57 II | of the lower part of the projectile. A glass cover, six inches
58 II | earth, with respect to the projectile, was entering its last phase.
59 II | united in heart, while the projectile sped onward with an ever-decreasing
60 II | said Nicholl.~“Because our projectile traveled faster than the
61 III | of divers densities. This projectile alone, floating in perfect
62 III | upper compartments of the projectile, whither some unaccountable
63 III | peopled by ourselves— the projectile! I am Barbicane’s likeness,
64 III | party. At this moment the projectile emerged from the conical
65 III | struck the lower disc of the projectile direct occasioned by the
66 III | are floating in space, our projectile, bathed in the solar rays,
67 III | temperature or brilliancy, the projectile grew warm and bright, as
68 III | is that the walls of the projectile might melt.”~“Calm yourself,
69 III | replied Barbicane; “the projectile withstood a very much higher
70 III | to settle himself in the projectile as if he was never to leave
71 III | lit the interior of the projectile from beneath, thus producing
72 III | be cautious, in case the projectile should land on a part of
73 III | Now about the air in the projectile. There, too, they were secure.
74 III | hours the atmosphere of the projectile had become charged with
75 III | collected at the bottom of the projectile owing to its weight. Poor
76 III | pressure of the air inside the projectile, but it also showed the
77 III | in the upper part of the projectile. There was a sort of granary
78 III | help lessen the fall of the projectile, when drawn by the lunar
79 III | roosting in the heights of the projectile, and always singing. In
80 III | slept peacefully, while the projectile under an uniformly decreasing
81 IV | applicable.~The position of the projectile with regard to the sun did
82 IV | rendered more peaceful by the projectile’s excessive speed, for it
83 IV | stationary, being shut up in the projectile; indeed, the effect would
84 IV | climbed to the top of the projectile, and shutting a box, the
85 IV | what initiatory speed the projectile ought to have on leaving
86 IV | distance traveled over, the projectile would simply fall upon the
87 IV | initiatory speed of the projectile, and that by a simple formula.”~“
88 IV | real course drawn by the projectile between the moon and the
89 IV | was necessary to give the projectile?”~“Incontestably,” replied
90 IV | is the speed which the projectile will have on leaving the
91 IV | That means, that when our projectile reached the limits of the
92 IV | find out the speed of the projectile when it leaves the atmosphere,
93 IV | speed necessary for the projectile on leaving the atmosphere,
94 IV | enough at starting; and our projectile, which only started with
95 IV | halfway.”~“In the name of the projectile!” exclaimed Michel Ardan,
96 V | observation, and noticed that the projectile was apparently stationary.
97 V | terrestrial diameter the projectile’s distance from the earth.
98 V | passed the point at which the projectile would have stopped if its
99 V | its partition-breaks, the projectile found itself lightened of
100 V | pleases, why cannot our projectile attain its end and aim?”~“
101 V | they not launched a lunar projectile to our terrestrial regions?”~“
102 V | earth, which would allow a projectile to rise more easily; secondly,
103 V | be enough to send such a projectile only at 8,000 leagues instead
104 V | appeared on earth.”~“And the projectile— where is the projectile?
105 V | projectile— where is the projectile? I demand to see the projectile.”~“
106 V | projectile? I demand to see the projectile.”~“My friend,” replied Barbicane, “
107 V | supposing that the lunar projectile, if ever launched, is now
108 V | second Noah’s ark of this projectile, and borne with us to the
109 V | to the air shut up in the projectile, and of which we must lose
110 V | excessive, penetrate the projectile or we shall be frozen to
111 V | sun?”~“The sun warms our projectile, which absorbs its rays;
112 V | air on the walls of the projectile, turned rapidly on its hinges,
113 VI | to their sojourn in the projectile; but they had already accomplished
114 VI | the line followed by the projectile, so as to meet it at the
115 VI | always enthusiastic. The projectile, its situation, its direction,
116 VI | Michel’s, relating to the projectile, provoked rather a curious
117 VI | Then,” said Nicholl, “the projectile would have been broken into
118 VI | would have been with our projectile as with a ball which falls
119 VI | Consequently I affirm that, if our projectile had struck the meteor, its
120 VI | himself to the roof of the projectile, “to observe the moon better,”
121 VI | floating some yards from the projectile. This object seemed as motionless
122 VI | seemed as motionless as the projectile, and was consequently animated
123 VI | of the bodies which our projectile keeps within its attraction,
124 VI | certainly less than that of the projectile, allows it to keep so perfectly
125 VI | everything we throw out of the projectile will accompany it until
126 VI | we might have filled the projectile with useful objects, books,
127 VI | being less than that of the projectile, you would soon be left
128 VII | Every object thrown from the projectile would follow the same course
129 VII | imagination went faster than the projectile, whose speed was evidently
130 VII | where her meeting with the projectile was to take place.~According
131 VII | on a flat ground, the projectile will remain motionless when
132 VII | subject.~The direction the projectile was taking toward the moon’
133 VII | calculated, would carry the projectile to the very center of the
134 VII | whether the course of the projectile would not be altered; for
135 VII | end. It was because the projectile then “weighed” almost nothing.
136 VII | watery vapor enclosed in the projectile mixing with the air tempered
137 VII | had been thrown from the projectile, obstinately following them.
138 VII | monsters on the top of the projectile.”~“Well, old Michel,” replied
139 VII | sentimental walks beyond the projectile are forbidden.”~Michel Ardan
140 VII | Columbiad is not there, the projectile will be.”~“That is a step
141 VII | not fasten a thread to our projectile, and we could have exchanged
142 VII | trying to find the invisible projectile gravitating in space. If
143 VII | upon the tenants of the projectile? Their sobriety could not
144 VII | provoked a sonorous echo in the projectile.~“No, I have not even thought
145 VII | jumped to the top of the projectile. An unaccountable flapping
146 VII | motionless to the bottom of the projectile.~
147 VIII | restoring the order of the projectile. Chickens and cock were
148 VIII | own weight, that of the projectile, and the objects it enclosed,
149 VIII | not prove this loss of the projectile, a moment would arrive when
150 VIII | suddenly annihilated, the projectile, according to Newton’s laws,
151 VIII | time must come when the projectile would no longer be subject
152 VIII | down as zero. Indeed, the projectile’s course was being traced
153 VIII | neutralize each other: the projectile would possess weight no
154 VIII | toward the other.~Now if the projectile’s impulsive force had been
155 VIII | should they know when the projectile had reached this neutral
156 VIII | objects enclosed in the projectile, would be any longer subject
157 VIII | clung to the floor of the projectile. They were like drunken
158 VIII | Ascension” in the center of the projectile.~“Is it to be believed?
159 VIII | replied Barbicane. “If the projectile passes the neutral point,
160 VIII | Barbicane, “because the projectile’s center of gravity is very
161 VIII | thing will move, for the projectile’s evolution will be imperceptible.”~“
162 VIII | that the conical end of the projectile was varying a little from
163 VIII | would be more decided, the projectile, drawn by its base, would
164 IX | at least as far as the projectile’s impulsive force was concerned;
165 IX | realized, the arrival of the projectile at its destination by the
166 IX | deaden the shock when the projectile should touch the lunar soil,
167 IX | layer of water stored in the projectile at the time of starting
168 IX | on the inclination of the projectile, but to his annoyance it
169 IX | Nicholl’s maintaining that the projectile would smash like glass,
170 IX | to a certain degree the projectile’s speed. These rockets were
171 IX | screwed on to the base of the projectile. Inside, these guns were
172 IX | remained but to wait. But the projectile was perceptibly nearing
173 IX | it was certain that the projectile would not fall directly
174 IX | increased as he saw his projectile resist the influence of
175 IX | themselves whither their projectile carriage was carrying them.
176 IX | if the direction of the projectile had been right, would not
177 IX | know at any cost why his projectile had deviated.~But the projectile
178 IX | projectile had deviated.~But the projectile continued its course sideways
179 IX | lunar attraction, but the projectile’s course was certainly bringing
180 IX | on the other, flooded the projectile with light.~At that moment
181 IX | leagues. The speed of the projectile seemed to him to be more
182 IX | centripetal force, the base of the projectile tended toward the moon;
183 IX | without any result. The projectile was evidently nearing the
184 IX | thing that has caused our projectile to deviate from its course,”
185 IX | compared to that of our projectile, was enormous, and its attraction
186 X | modify the course of the projectile. It was a fatality. The
187 X | stifled in this wandering projectile. But some days to these
188 X | which had then separated the projectile from the satellite was estimated
189 X | moments. The distance of the projectile from the moon diminished
190 X | The oblique course of the projectile, from its very obliquity,
191 X | portion of the moon which the projectile was nearing was the northern
192 XII | The course taken by the projectile, as we have before remarked,
193 XII | nearer to the North Pole. The projectile was then not at the altitude
194 XII | Barbicane, posted in his projectile, with the glasses to his
195 XII | are astronomers; and this projectile is a room in the Cambridge
196 XII | different distances which the projectile reached.~At the time that
197 XII | reached.~At the time that the projectile was as high as the tenth
198 XII | Purbach, Arzachel. But the projectile was advancing, and sensibly
199 XII | terrestrial morning, the projectile, like a balloon borne into
200 XII | Ardan.~At this moment the projectile hung perpendicularly over
201 XII | reason with savants.”~But the projectile continued to advance with
202 XII | the horizon without the projectile being sufficiently near
203 XII | parallel. The distance of the projectile from the moon was not more
204 XII | now perceiving that the projectile was steadily approaching
205 XIII | two in the morning, the projectile was over the thirteenth
206 XIII | natural forces.~But the projectile had now attained the fortieth
207 XIII | in the void in which the projectile floated no fluid interposed
208 XIII | Selenites, they can see our projectile, but we cannot see them.”~
209 XIII | phenomenon to surprise; but the projectile’s course could not be altered.
210 XIII | a balloon, still less a projectile, when once enclosed within
211 XIII | not altered even when the projectile, at the height of 80°, was
212 XIII | impossible that, before long, the projectile would not strike her, if
213 XIII | useless attempt; for if the projectile could not attain any point
214 XIII | the darkness. Suddenly the projectile passed the line of demarcation
215 XIV | took place so rapidly, the projectile was skirting the moon’s
216 XIV | movements of the moon. The projectile, immerged in the conical
217 XIV | it is the fault of the projectile, which, instead of rigidly
218 XIV | extinguishing all light in the projectile; but not a luminous spark
219 XIV | twenty-five miles only— why the projectile had not fallen? If its speed
220 XIV | not be explained. Was the projectile under some foreign influence?
221 XIV | fifteen days where would the projectile be? Who could say? Where
222 XIV | Infinity, amid which the projectile was gravitating, like a
223 XIV | was no longer warming the projectile with its direct rays, and
224 XIV | obliged to beg for heat. The projectile’s low temperature was no
225 XIV | instrument; it follows the projectile with exemplary docility;
226 XV | were not masters of their projectile; they could neither check
227 XV | impossible to estimate it. The projectile, held by some unaccountable
228 XV | direction and the speed of the projectile.~Perhaps it was rapidly
229 XV | as his opinion that the projectile, held by the lunar attraction,
230 XV | upon it. The same with our projectile. It may approach very near
231 XV | reflection.~“What are they?”~“The projectile has the choice between two
232 XV | discussion. What curve would the projectile follow? was their hobby.
233 XV | parabolically borne away, the projectile would never again meet either
234 XV | temperature of the interior of the projectile a little, and without much
235 XV | difficult. the dampness of the projectile was condensed on the windows
236 XV | side of the moon.”~But the projectile was now describing in the
237 XV | this, that the base of the projectile had turned toward the moon’
238 XV | The heaviest part of the projectile inclined toward the invisible
239 XV | showed Barbicane that his projectile was not nearing the moon,
240 XV | a decided proof that the projectile was shifting toward it and
241 XV | displeasure, the curve which the projectile was describing was taking
242 XV | a light which filled the projectile. The forms of Barbicane,
243 XV | half per second. It cut the projectile’s path and must reach it
244 XV | frightful terror. Their projectile, the course of which they
245 XV | centuries of anguish) the projectile seemed almost about to strike
246 XV | some of which struck the projectile. Its left scuttle was even
247 XVI | SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE~The projectile had just escaped a terrible
248 XVI | three in the afternoon. The projectile was following its curvilinear
249 XVI | to be feared so. But the projectile must describe a curve unalterably
250 XVI | admitting the parabola, the projectile must quickly have passed
251 XVI | and up to this time the projectile had been floating in this
252 XVI | direction followed by the projectile, some bright points cut
253 XVI | it is probable that the projectile will describe an elliptical
254 XVII | At six in the evening the projectile passed the south pole at
255 XVII | moment the bottom of the projectile deviated somewhat from the
256 XVII | of 24,600 feet.~But the projectile was high above all this
257 XVII | off. The distance of the projectile from the lunar disc was
258 XVII | after passing Newton, the projectile directly overlooked the
259 XVII | burst at this spot.~The projectile was still advancing, and
260 XVIII| GRAVE QUESTIONS~But the projectile had passed the enceinte
261 XVIII| splendors of Tycho. Their projectile, saturated with luminous
262 XVIII| Commission assembled in the projectile of the Gun Club, after having
263 XVIII| hazardous theories, the projectile was rapidly leaving the
264 XIX | ever returning to it. The projectile’s position with regard to
265 XIX | to surprise them. If the projectile was to gravitate round the
266 XIX | watching the course of the projectile they could see that on leaving
267 XIX | answered Barbicane; “either the projectile’s speed will be insufficient,
268 XIX | are not masters of their projectile they are not artillerymen.
269 XIX | not artillerymen. If the projectile is to command the gunner,
270 XIX | has pleased me, and the projectile agrees with me; but let
271 XIX | alter the motion of the projectile?”~“No.”~“Nor diminish its
272 XIX | had no influence on the projectile’s course, it could at least
273 XIX | began again. Around the projectile, at an invariable distance,
274 XIX | means of estimating the projectile’s speed, but reasoning showed
275 XIX | Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit
276 XIX | elliptical. And why should the projectile of the Gun Club escape this
277 XIX | language is enriched, if the projectile remains as a satellite of
278 XIX | In the latter case, the projectile would attain its maximum
279 XIX | position occupied by the projectile, an oblique position with
280 XIX | inexplicable influence, the projectile is turning its base toward
281 XIX | dead point, because the projectile was then endowed with too
282 XIX | what precise moment the projectile would reach the point of
283 XIX | to check the fall of the projectile upon the moon, and now they
284 XIX | at the same instant.~The projectile was still leaving the moon,
285 XIX | Mountains. If he could see the projectile through the glass of his
286 XIX | speed would then animate the projectile? They could not estimate
287 XIX | phenomenon would mark the projectile’s stopping-point on the
288 XIX | they must act.~Already the projectile’s conical top was sensibly
289 XIX | immediately extinguished.~The projectile sustained a certain shock,
290 XIX | since the bottom of the projectile is not turning to the lunar
291 XIX | when we came into this projectile we were very doubtful as
292 XIX | speed retained had borne the projectile beyond the dead point. The
293 XIX | the laws of gunnery, the projectile must strike the earth with
294 XIX | miles per hour. Here the projectile must strike the earth with
295 XX | the course of the famous projectile.~Everything went well, and
296 XX | not have discovered the projectile wandering around its hemisphere,
297 XX | arrival cannot be doubted. The projectile was to reach the moon when
298 XX | Selenite stream, near a projectile half-buried by its fall
299 XXI | that the meteor was the projectile of the Gun Club. As to the
300 XXI | replied a fourth; “the projectile was nothing but an incandescent
301 XXI | were for fishing up the projectile. A difficult operation,
302 XXI | information to the Gun Club of the projectile’s fall.~This determination
303 XXI | the exact spot where the projectile fell.”~“Besides,” replied
304 XXI | one in the morning, the projectile of the Columbiad fell into
305 XXI | Belfast announced that the projectile had just been seen in the
306 XXI | admitted the fall of the projectile, and consequently the return
307 XXI | the latter the pretended projectile was nothing but a meteor!
308 XXI | favor, namely, that if the projectile had fallen on the earth,
309 XXI | the means of raising the projectile from the depths of the ocean.~
310 XXI | had started soon after the projectile (and almost as quickly)
311 XXI | erroneously affirming that the projectile had become a satellite of
312 XXI | they thought they saw the projectile once more, and they did
313 XXI | Belfast affirming that the projectile could not be seen, J. T.
314 XXI | his eyes out.”~“It is the projectile!” repeated J. T. Maston.~“
315 XXI | that he had just seen the projectile, and adding that he could
316 XXI | said J. T. Maston.~“The projectile!”~“Well!”~“Has fallen to
317 XXI | severely.~“And that cursed projectile has fallen?” asked J. T.
318 XXI | exclaimed.~“Fish up the projectile,” replied J. T. Maston, “
319 XXII | THE SEA~The spot where the projectile sank under the waves was
320 XXII | plunged.~But fishing-up the projectile was not the only thing to
321 XXII | hauling-chains. The aluminum projectile only weighed 19,250 pounds,
322 XXII | fishing up a cylindro-conical projectile, the walls of which were
323 XXII | which would never let the projectile go if it once succeeded
324 XXII | chances against them, the projectile being 20,000 feet under
325 XXII | westward of the spot where the projectile had disappeared beneath
326 XXII | Before trying to seize the projectile, Engineer Murchison wanted
327 XXII | between the prisoners in the projectile and the prisoners in the
328 XXII | extent of view, but the projectile was nowhere to be seen.~
329 XXII | to be the much-sought-for projectile; but their mistake was soon
330 XXII | that the meeting with the projectile might be expected.~The next
331 XXII | unfortunates shut up in the projectile for twenty-six days. Perhaps
332 XXII | all hope was gone. This projectile was but an atom in the immensity
333 XXII | secretary, “it is that the projectile only weighs 19,250 pounds!”~“
334 XXII | specific lightness, the projectile, after having been drawn
335 XXII | while they advanced to the projectile. What did it contain? Living
336 XXII | One of the scuttles of the projectile was open. Some pieces of
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