See also:
Flying Machines (circa 1885)
Futuristic Air Travel (circa 1900)
Boy's Flying Machine of the 20th Century (1900)
Pears Soap Flying Machine (1906)
Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)
French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)
Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882)
3 comments:
don't forget the seventeenth-century Frances Godwin!
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/111.4/images/cressy_fig01b.jpg
Open viewing deck, eh?
"Nice [gasp] view [gasp][choke]..." (float away as you puff up into a frozen human balloon satellte)
Not to mention it gets a bit toasty at reentry.
Wow... That was almost exactly the first third of Disney's Man in Space... A little more reverent and a little shorter, but they Cliff Noted it point by point and invention by invention.
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