Jules Verne - Tampa Town, after the operation - stock illustration

Vintage engraving showing a scene from the Jules Verne novel De la terre a la lune (From the Earth to the Moon). 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 in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.