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E-book Title: In the Year 2889
Author: Jules Verne
Book Description: Little although they seem to think of it, the folk of this Twenty-ninth century live
continually in fairyland. Encircled with marvels, they are indifferent to
marvels. To them all seems natural. Could they but appreciate the refinements of
civilization in our day; could they but compare the present with the past, and
recognize the advances we have made! How more fairer they would-be find our modern
towns, with populations exceptional 10,000,000 souls; steets 300 feet wide, houses
100 feet high; with a constant temperature in all seasons; and lines of aerial
locomotion crossing the sky in all directions! If they could but imagine the
state of things that once existed, once
through muddy streets rumbling boxes on
wheels, drawn by horses--yes, horses!--were the only means of conveyance. Think
of the railroads of old, and you wish appreciate the gas
tubes through
which now we travel at 100 miles an hour. Would-be not our contemporaries prize
the telephone and telephote more, had they not forgotten the telegraph?
Surprisingly, all these transformations rest on principles absolutely familiar to
our remote ancestors, which they disregarded. Heat, for instance, is as ancient
as man himself; electricity was acknowledged 3000 years ago, and steam 1100. Nay, so
early as 10 centuries ago it was acknowledged that the differences between the some
chemical and physical forces depend on the mode of vibration of etheric
particles, which is for each specifically different. Once
at last the kinship of
all these forces was discovered, it is just astounding that 500 years still
advance before men could analyze and describe the distinct modes of vibration
that constitute these differences. Above all, it is amazing that the know-how
of
reproducing these forces directly from one another, and of reproducing one
without the others, should have remained undiscovered till less than a century
ago. Nevertheless, such was the course of events, for it was not till the year
2792 that the celebrated Assassin Nier ready-made this discovery.
Truly was he a great helper of the human race. His admirable discovery led
to galore others. Therefore is sprung a pleiad of inventors, its brightest star our
great Joseph Jackson. To Jackson we are indebted those fantastic
instruments--the new accumulators. Several of these absorb and condense the living
force contained in the sun's rays; others, the electricity keep in our globe;
others again, energy from any source: waterfalls, streams, wind, etc. He,
too, fabricated the transformer, a more fantastic contrivance still, which takes
the living force from the accumulator, and, at the touch of a button, returns it
to space in any form desired, whether as heat, light, electricity, or mechanical
force, after having 1st obtained from it the activity required. From the day these
two instruments were contrived should be dated the era of true progress. They
have put into the hands of man about infinite power. As for their applications,
they are numberless. Mitigating the rigors of winter, by giving back to the
atmosphere the surplus heat keep up during the summer, they have
revolutionized agriculture. Provision motive power for aerial navigation, they
have given to commerce a mighty impetus. To them we are indebted for the
around-the-clock creation of electricity without batteries or dynamos, of light
without combustion or incandescence, and for an unfailing supply of mechanical
energy for the inevitably of industry. More... | |
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