Novelist · 1828 – 1905
Jules Verne
Little-Known Facts
- His fictional submarine, the Nautilus, predated practical submarines by decades.
- His moon-launch story imagined a Florida launch site, near where NASA would later fly to the Moon.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Jules Verne predict the future?
He didn't truly predict it, but by extrapolating from real 19th-century science he imagined technologies — submarines, spaceflight — that later came to pass.