The Moon Maid the Moon Maid

I shall not bore you with dry, technical descriptions of our motors and equipment. Suffice it to say that the former were of three types–those which propelled the ship through the air and those which propelled it through ether, the latter of course represented our most important equipment, and consisted of powerful multiple-exhaust separators which isolated the true Barsoomian Eighth Ray in great quantities, and, by exhausting it rapidly earthward, propelled the vessel toward Mars.