Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 7Scribner & Company, 1874 |
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Page 261
... Barbicane arose and ad- dressed the assembly . The substance of his address was as follows : He lamented the idleness of the Club caused by the recent peace . He desired that it should undertake some great work . A PROJECTILE TRAIN TO ...
... Barbicane arose and ad- dressed the assembly . The substance of his address was as follows : He lamented the idleness of the Club caused by the recent peace . He desired that it should undertake some great work . A PROJECTILE TRAIN TO ...
Page 262
... Barbicane , October 8. The mat- ter of the ball was the first thing to be settled . Of what should they make it ? How big should it be ? And what shape should it have ? J. T. Maston was wild with enthusiasm , and , waving in the air his ...
... Barbicane , October 8. The mat- ter of the ball was the first thing to be settled . Of what should they make it ? How big should it be ? And what shape should it have ? J. T. Maston was wild with enthusiasm , and , waving in the air his ...
Page 263
... Barbicane of the Gun Club appeared to him in the form of a conical ball which pierced him through and through . And whenever Barbicane dreamed , he saw Nichol in the shape of an immense iron - clad against the impenetra- ble sides of ...
... Barbicane of the Gun Club appeared to him in the form of a conical ball which pierced him through and through . And whenever Barbicane dreamed , he saw Nichol in the shape of an immense iron - clad against the impenetra- ble sides of ...
Page 264
... Barbicane answered that he would not make the experiment , not even if Captain Nichol stood before his plate . Then Captain Nichol attacked Barbicane through the newspapers . He asserted that the plan was all nonsense , and proposed a ...
... Barbicane answered that he would not make the experiment , not even if Captain Nichol stood before his plate . Then Captain Nichol attacked Barbicane through the newspapers . He asserted that the plan was all nonsense , and proposed a ...
Page 265
... Barbicane placed at the dis- posal of the Observatory of Cambridge the necessary funds for the construction of an enormous telescope , and contracted with the house of Breadwill & Co. , of Albany , for the manufacture of the hollow ball ...
... Barbicane placed at the dis- posal of the Observatory of Cambridge the necessary funds for the construction of an enormous telescope , and contracted with the house of Breadwill & Co. , of Albany , for the manufacture of the hollow ball ...
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