Image ID: SIL-39088002245697_0215
Cite this: Verne, Jules. 1874. From the Earth to the Moon : direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it.,New York, Scribner, Armstrong.
Supplied Caption: Here we see the interior of the projectile fitted out with equipment for the journey: a collapsing telescope, pickaxes, guns, trees to plant, the oxygen apparatus. Below are the baffles for reducing the shock of launch. The guns were used as retro-rockets to reduce the speed of the projectile as it approached earth.
Original Caption: The interior of the projectile.
