Date |
Device Name (Novel Author) |
1726 |
Laputa - a floating island (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) |
1726 |
Bio-Energy - produce electricity from organic material (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) |
1726 |
Knowledge Engine - machine-made expertise (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) |
1726 |
Geometric Modeling - eighteenth century NURBS (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift) |
1828 |
Barrels of Air (from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Henry Loudon) |
1828 |
Steam-Propelled Moving Houses (from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Henry Loudon) |
1828 |
Stage Balloon (from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Henry Loudon) |
1828 |
Mail-Post Letter-Ball (from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Henry Loudon) |
1866 |
Paper Steel (from Robur-the-Conqueror by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Weightlessness - true science fiction discovery (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Retro-Rockets - Verne invented them! (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Light Pressure Propulsion - first use of this idea (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Water-Springs (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Spashdown - the original idea (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Launching Facility - in Florida (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Projectile-Vehicle - Verne's spacecraft (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Free Return Trajectory - first mention (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Communicate with Extraterrestrials - first use of concept (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1867 |
Columbiad - 900 foot cannon (from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne) |
1869 |
Flywheel Launcher (from The Brick Moon by Edward Everett Hale) |
1875 |
Nautilus - Captain Nemo's ride (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne) |
1875 |
Diving Apparatus - scuba diving in the 19th century (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne) |
1875 |
Electrify the Rail - repel boarders! (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne) |
1875 |
Leyden Ball - grandfather of the taser (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne) |
1875 |
Undersea Mining (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne) |
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