From the Earth to the Moon, Chapter 16 summary

What happens

1. Extreme heat prevents access to the casting until August 22, while J. T. Maston worries about the December 1 deadline.
2. Workers remove the inner mold by September 3, then machine and polish the bore, completing the cannon on September 22.
3. Colonel Blomsberry saves Maston from falling into the tube, and Nicholl records a two-thousand-dollar debt to Barbicane on October 6.
4. Barbicane opens Stones Hill to visitors, charging five dollars for descents and earning the Gun Club nearly five hundred thousand dollars.
5. On September 25, ten Gun Club members descend for a banquet at the bottom of the cannon.
6. Their toasts boom through the tube, the crowd joins their cheers, and Maston declares his overwhelming delight.

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