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It is a work of speculative fiction containing the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite (though in 1728 a publication by Isaac Newton included a description of Newton's cannonball, a hypothetical artificial object which is projected from a mountain, as a thought experiment to explain why natural satellites move as they do).
- Edward Everett Hale
- 1869
The Story of the Brick Moon. The first fictional satellite achieved orbit in 1869. See how spaceflight was imagined through the lens of science-fiction pioneer and American prodigy of letters Edward Everett Hale in his story, “The Brick Moon.”
Jul 28, 2022 · The story of The Brick Moon was begun in my dear brother Nathan’s working-room in Union College, Schenectady, in the year 1870, when he was professor of the English language there. The account of the first plan of the moon is a sketch, as accurate as was needed, of the old chat and dreams, plans and jokes, of our college days, before he left ...
Apr 15, 2004 · The first known proposal for a marned-satellite appears in a story by Hale entitled "The Brick Moon" published in 1899. The story involved a group of young Bostonians who planned to put an artificial satellite into polar orbit for sailors to use to determine longitude accurately and easily.
Feb 1, 1999 · The Brick Moon, and Other Stories. Contents. The brick moon -- Crusoe in New York -- Bread on the waters -- The lost palace -- 99 Linwood Street -- Ideals -- Thanksgiving at the polls -- The survivor's story. Language.
- Edward Everett Hale
- English
- 1869
- The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
Jan 13, 2018 · "The Brick Moon" is a short story by Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic Monthly from October to December 1869.
It must be brick; we must have a Brick Moon!" Then we had to calculate its size. You can see, on the old moon, an edifice two hundred feet long with any of the fine refractors of our day.
