Excerpts from the Book 'In The Year':

... transformations rest upon principles which were perfectly familiar to our remote ancestors, but which they disregarded. Heat, for instance, is as ...
... for an unfailing supply of mechanical energy for all the needs of industry. Yes, all these wonders have been wrought by the accumulator and the transformer. ...
... each subscriber owns a phonograph, and to this instrument he leaves the task of gathering the news whenever he happens not to be in a mood to listen ...
... each 3,250 feet in length, over which proudly floats the hundred-starred flag of the Union. Thanks to the same lucky hit, he is to-day king of newspaperdom ...
... trips to Europe. The first thing that Mr. Smith does is to connect his phonotelephote, the wires of which communicate with his Paris mansion. The telephote! ...
... will say, 'in order to note these fleeting thoughts one must know them, must be able to follow them in their capricious meanderings.' Why, any child ...
... hall. Here 1500 reporters, in their respective places, facing an equal number of telephones, are communicating to the subscribers the news of the world ...
... in Mr. Smith, turning to a second scientist. Optical science defective! Optical science is your specialty. But, he continued, again addressing William ...
... cities or even of entire countries. This, too, is one of Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith's ideas, and in the Earth Chronicle building a thousand projectors ...
... effort toward the west. O, is that all? In that case, said Mr. Smith, the thing can be arranged. I will speak to the Secretary of State about it. ...
... will be well received! You decline! All is over then! murmured the British agent sadly. The United Kingdom falls to the share of the Americans the Indies ...
... the difference of hours, Mr. Smith and his wife have arranged to take their meals simultaneously. It is delightful thus to take breakfast ...
... which must surely yield millions of profit. A choice has to be made between these projects, rejecting the worthless, examining the questionable ones, ...
... we are able to make all the seasons the same. I propose to do something better still. Transform into heat a portion of the surplus energy at our ...
... algebraic formulas. Night was approaching. Entranced by the harmony, forgetful of the hour, Smith did not notice that it was growing dark. It was ...
... casket being laid down in the middle of the room, the telephote was got in readiness. The outer world, already notified, was anxiously expectant, for ...
... the body and it resounds like a block of wood. They are now applying heat now electricity. No result. These experiments are suspended for a moment ...
... undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero ...
... who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the center of the Earth. They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric ...
... who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ...