From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

"From the Earth to the Moon" is a novel by Jules Verne, telling the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun to send to the Moon. Three people have to be on board – the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet. The book is notable for Verne's attempt to do rough calculations, and some of the figures were remarkably accurate.