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 69
rsons Magazine of an American who used a hugesearchlight apparatus to throw an advertisementon to the Moon, use moon soap. The picturedoes not suggest any great difficulty in this achieve-ment until we remember that owing to the Moonbeing 240,000 miles away, each of the letters wouldbe hundreds of… … The Wreck of the imaginary Searchlight Apparatusfor advertising on the Moon (See Notes to Illustrations.) that it would not. But you can never tell what theymay do next in America. But now I do not want you to take this statement THE LENGTH OF OUR VOYAGE 49 about the distance of the Moon on my…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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