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The Jules Verne was an express train that linked Paris and Nantes in France. Operated by the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français , it was the last new Trans Europ Express (TEE) to be introduced, in 1980. The train was named after the French author Jules Verne, who was born in Nantes.
Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; [1] [2] French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) [3] was a French novelist, poet and playwright.. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, [3] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
A Jules Verne Centennial (images) (Scribner ed.), Smithsonian Institution, 1874. Gioia, Ted, From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (review), Conceptual Fiction. Verne, Jules (25 December 2010), De la Terre à la Lune (audio) (in French), Litterature audio. From the Earth to the Moon public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Train later claimed, "Verne stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg." [6] The book page containing the famous dénouement (page 312 in the Philadelphia – Porter & Coates, 1873 edition) [23] Regarding the idea of gaining a day, Verne said of its origin: "I have a great number of scientific odds and ends in my head.
Bly's journey, at the time, was a world record, though it was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days. [16] By 1913, Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick and John Henry Mears had improved on the record, the latter completing the journey in less than 36 days.
The next thing to happen was a collision between Jules Verne and a French TGV train, with Verne becoming a new hood ornament. From the train, Jules Verne and Nine-Eye explored the modern streets of Paris (with Verne walking among the traffic, nearly causing an accident), which led Verne, curious, to try driving.
Inspired by Jules Verne's and Adolphe d'Ennery's 1882 play Journey Through the Impossible, and modeled in style and format on Méliès's highly successful 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographically minded tourists attempt a journey to the Sun using various methods of ...
The book's description of the technology of 1960 is in some ways remarkably close to the actual technology of the 1960s. The book describes in detail advances such as cars powered by internal combustion engines ("gas-cabs") together with the necessary supporting infrastructure such as gas stations and paved asphalt roads; elevated and underground passenger train systems and high-speed trains ...