During the years of the American Civil War, the Cannon Club was founded in Baltimore, the participants of which were engaged in the invention and production of more and more powerful and modern artillery. However, when peacetime came, new guns ceased to be needed, and then chairman Impi Barbiken proposed an unprecedentedly large-scale and ambitious project - to build such a gun that its shell could reach the moon itself.
Book From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon (by Jules Verne)
