From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by
Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-
American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad
space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a
moon landing.