MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

JULES VERNE

1828-1905. Born in Nantes, France, Jules Verne was a 19th Century pioneer of Science Fiction. Paris in the 20th Century (1863) anticipated television, cars, air conditioning, and the internet. From the Earth to the Moon (1865) is comparable to the Apollo Program: Verne’s launching ‘cannon’ was the Columbiad, whereas, the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia; the measurements of Verne’s craft is very close to that of the Apollo CSM craft; both crews consisted of three people; Verne’s voyage departed from Florida (like the Apollo lift-offs) about one hundred and thirty miles from NASA’s launch site at Cape Canaveral. The forthcoming application of submarines was foreseen in his 1870 classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne’s works also predicted helicopters, projectors, jukeboxes, and underwater hydrothermal vents.

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