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Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised.
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Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".[1]
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Mercier and subsequent British translators also had trouble with the metric system that Verne used, sometimes dropping significant figures, at other times keeping the nominal value and only changing the unit to an Imperial measure. Thus Verne's calculations, which in general were remarkably exact, were converted into mathematical gibberish. Also, artistic passages and whole chapters were cut because of the need to fit the work in a constrained space for publication.
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Jules Verne's novels have been noted for being startlingly accurate anticipations of modern times. Paris in the 20th Century is an often cited example of this as it arguably describes air conditioning, automobiles, the internet, television, and other modern conveniences very similar to their real world counterparts.
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In other works, Verne predicted the inventions of helicopters, submarines, projectors, jukeboxes, and other later devices.
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