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Quotation from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
“The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers”
From the Earth to the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon, Ch. 1, trans. Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King (1873)
Verne sets the comic tone of the Gun Club's American enthusiasm.
Citation: "The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers" — Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon, Ch. 1, trans. Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King (1873). (id from-the-earth-to-the-moon-q1)
Portrait: Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne, Nadar, Public domain.
