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THE GUN CLUB During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military ma…
PRESIDENT BARBICANE’S COMMUNICATION On the 5th of October, at eight p.m., a dense crowd pressed toward the saloons of the Gun Club at No. 21 Union Square. All the members of the association resident …
EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMUNICATION It is impossible to describe the effect produced by the last words of the honorable president—the cries, the shouts, the succession of roars, hurrahs, and all …
REPLY FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF CAMBRIDGE Barbicane, however, lost not one moment amid all the enthusiasm of which he had become the object. His first care was to reassemble his colleagues in the board…
THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON An observer endued with an infinite range of vision, and placed in that unknown center around which the entire world revolves, might have beheld myriads of atoms filling all s…
PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND BELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES The immediate result of Barbicane’s proposition was to place upon the orders of the day all the astronomical facts relative to the Queen…
THE HYMN OF THE CANNON-BALL The Observatory of Cambridge in its memorable letter had treated the question from a purely astronomical point of view. The mechanical part still remained. President Barb…
HISTORY OF THE CANNON The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being launched into space;…
THE QUESTION OF THE POWDERS There remained for consideration merely the question of powders. The public awaited with interest its final decision. The size of the projectile, the length of the cannon …
ONE ENEMY v. TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF FRIENDS The American public took a lively interest in the smallest details of the enterprise of the Gun Club. It followed day by day the discussion of the commit…
