Verne Jules

Meakin, David. Jules Verne s alchemical journey short-circuited. French Studs 45 (1991). 

He was invited professor at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI (June 2000), at the Universit6 Jules Verne-Picardie (Amiens, France) (Mai 2003), and at the Okayama University (Faculty of Engineering) (September 2003). 

Already in 1874, Jules Verne, in his novel The Mysterious Island, lets the engineer Cyrus Harding reply when asked what mankind will burn instead of coal, once it has been depleted ... 

Patoux, S. Materiaux d electrode positive a charpente polya nionique pour batteries au lithium Approches cristallochimiques et electrochimiques. These de Doctorat, L Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, 2003. 

Mendeleev had a keen appreciation of art and literature. He sometimes wrote articles on art, and his study was furnished with pencil sketches of Lavoisier, Newton, Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, Graham, Mitscherlich, Rose, Chevreul, Faraday, Dumas, and Berthelot drawn by his wife. His favorite author was Jules Verne, and his chief consolation... 

A league is an obsolete unit of distance used by archaic (or nostalgic) sailors. A league is equivalent to 5.6 km. If the characters in Jules Verne s novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea travel to a depth of 20,000 leagues, how many kilometers under the surface of the water are they If the radius of the Earth is 6,378 km, is this a reasonable depth Why or why not ... 

The radius of the Earth is only 6,378 km, and 20,000 leagues is 17.5 times that radius So the ship would ve burrowed through the Earth and been halfway to the orbit of Mars if it had truly sunk to such a depth. Jules Verne s title refers to the distance the submarine travels through the sea, not its depth. 

The basement level was like Jules Verne meets Joseph Stalin. Before Bugayev and his men got to work checking on the Misl Vremya, or even the extensive displays of antiques and valuables, there was the matter of the two corpses occupying one of the central booths. 

Laboratoire de Chimie Organique ICBMS UMR 5246 CNRS Universite Lyon 1 INSA-Lyon CPE Lyon Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, Batiment Jules Verne, 20 Avenue Albert Einstein, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex, France... 

In the late 1800s, cocaine became popular in Europe both as a medicine and pleasure drug. It was a common ingredient in tonics and in "Vin Mariana," a highly successful wine that was endorsed by royalty, popes, and notable figures such as Thomas Edison, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. —... 

A. J. Bhattacharyya et at, in preparation. The courtesy of Prof. J.-M. Tarascon, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, of providing the LiFePO,i samples is acknowledged. 

In 1874, Jules Verne, a French novel writer, prophetically examined the potential use of hydrogen as a fuel in his popular work of fiction entitled The Mysterious Island and he had this extraordinary vision I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. ... 

The idea of hydrogen as the ultimate fuel, limitless and powerful, stoked the imagination of nineteenth-century fiction writers. In his 1874 book The Mysterious Island, the ever-prescient writer Jules Verne has his characters discuss what would happen to America s industrial and commercial movement when the world runs out of coal in hundreds of years. The engineer, Cyrus Harding, explains that the world will turn to another fuel, water decomposed into its primitive elements. . . doubtless by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force. Harding goes on to say ... 

Jules Verne appears to be one of the earliest people to recognize, or at least articulate, the idea of splitting water to produce hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) in order to satisfy the energy requirements of society. As early as 1874 in The Mysterious Island, Jules Veme alluded to clean hydrogen fuels, writing ... 

From TranscriptionalProfileto Drug in Four Years—Jules Verne... 

Normally, it takes more than 10 years to develop a new medicine. Therefore, to go from a transcriptional profile of a pathological sample to a drug in four years sounds like fiction written by Jules Verne or Isaac Asimov. 

Most metals exist in nature combined with one or more nonmetals, such as oxygen, sulfur, or chlorine. They are compounds in ores, not pure metals. In the smelting process, the metal is separated from the nonmetal by heating the ore with a material that has a stronger attraction for the non-metal than the metal. In the case of the process described by Jules Verne, the nonmetal is oxygen and the second material with a stronger attraction... 

It might be argued that not being limited by profound knowledge of, or belief in the known laws of nature (it is the feebleness of our understanding of those laws that make the purely scientific approach to innovation impractical. . . ), it is really the unusual thinkers such as science-fiction writers - people like Jules Verne come to mind - who take the lead in expanding our minds with respect to new materials functions and applications, as well as entirely new concepts for food, shelter, safety, transportation and communication. 

You are underwater in a submarine in an Antarctic iceberg field. While sleeping in your bunk, you are awakened by a violent shock and thrown into the middle of your cabin. Surveying the situation, you realize that the submarine is on its side. This is what happens to P. Aronnax when he is aboard Captain Nemo s Nautilus in Jules Verne s science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 

A History of Hydrogen Energy The Reverend Cecil, Jules Verne, and the Redoubtable Mr. Erren... 

In 1935, Erren made headlines in the popular British press with news that warmed the hearts of Jules Verne fans. Secret Fuel to Smash Air Record headlined the Sunday Despatch of March 24, 1935, subheading the one-column story Non-Stop Round the World with Tiquid Hydrogen. ... 

McKibben s melancholy fin-de-siecle view of the world is, consciously or unconsciously, probably rather widely shared. But there is also an opposite view a new-century, can-do view, tempered by the insights and experiences of the world s Bill McKibbens, that says We can and will make the world a better place. This view has inspired and prodded thousands and thousands of activists, researchers, and others to work for a cleaner environment. It was expressed first and best by Jules Verne, in his 1874 novel The Mysterious Island ... 

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