A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913 (1915)
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861-1930 · London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 233
we were to go by an express train.Suppose we travelled in a train at the rate o: sixty 212 A VOYAGE IN SPACE miles an hour we should take 175 years to get tothe Sun. I suppose a return ticket at the ordinaryBritish rates would cost us something under amillion pounds. It is curious to think that… … Drawing of part of the Suns surface by Sir W. Huggins. sleeping compartments at night and restaurant carsduring the day, moving so quietly along that wecan play our games too. The big Atlantic steamershave broad decks on which children can playsome few games; but the Earth has a far broaderdeck on…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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