Jules Verne had insights about the future of submarines

Captain Nemo travels in a 70-meter submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This was not feasible in 1869, when Jules Verne wrote the book, despite the efforts of several innovators. Robert Fulton, an American engineer, created the first submarine with military applications in 1797. Jules Verne borrowed the name "Nautilus" for his story when he gave his boat that name. The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was named in homage to the book. What a fascinating interplay between fiction and reality!

Electricity was a brand-new technology in Jules Verne's time, and he imagined a boat that was run by it. The Spanish Navy would be able to deploy the first electrical submarine in 1887 thanks to the development of the turbine. Some submarines didn't grow to the size of Captain Nemo's craft until the 1930s.

Helicopters, video conferences, drones, electronic chairs, guided missiles, solar sails, and many more inventions are attributed to Jules Verne. It is amusing to consider that a man who had a very consistent existence between his home and library was the source of all this inventiveness. He did not travel much himself, but he wrote about a wide variety of locations and even made up some.