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Ψ Jules Verne
French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction.
Ψ Nellie Bly
U.S. newspaper writer whose around-the-world race against a theoretical record made the name celebrated and a synonym for the feminine star reporter.
Ψ Great Eastern
steamship considered to be the prototype of the modern ocean liner. Designed by I.K. Brunel and J. Scott Russell for the Eastern Navigation Company to carry cargo and passengers between England and India, at the time of its launching (1858) it was the largest ship in the world, displacing 32,160 tons and measuring 692 feet (211 m) overall . . .
Ψ Maelstrøm
Norwegian moskenstraumen, marine channel and strong tidal current of the Norwegian Sea, in the Lofoten islands, northern Norway. Flowing between the islands of Moskenesøya (north) and Mosken (south), it has a treacherous current. About 5 miles (8 km) wide, alternating in flow between the open sea on the west and Vestfjorden on the . . .
Ψ Mongolian literature
literature written in any of the Mongolian languages of east-central Asia.
Ψ Nautilus
any of at least three historic submarines (including the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel) and a fourth submarine famous in science fiction.
Ψ Petrosani
city, Hunedoara judet (county), west-central Romania, situated on a tributary of the Jiu River. Founded in the 17th century, it is the principal city and cultural centre for the upper Jiu Valley coalfield. It has a theatre and a museum of mining. The city is the headquarters for a group of nearby mining centres, including Lupeni, . . .
Ψ Albert Robida
early pioneer of science fiction and founding father of science fiction art.
Ψ robinsonade
any novel written in imitation of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719–22) that deals with the problem of the castaway's survival on a desert island.
Ψ William Pène du Bois
American author and illustrator of children’s books noted for his comic coterie of peculiar characters. In 1948 he was awarded the Newbery Medal for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947).
Ψ H. G. Wells » Early writings.
Wells’s first published book was a Textbook of Biology (1893). With his first novel, The Time Machine (1895), which was immediately successful, he began a series of science-fiction novels that revealed him as a writer of marked originality and an immense fecundity of ideas: The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor...
Ψ Central Asian Arts » Literature » Mongolian Literature
Mongolian literature begins with the Secret History of the Mongols, an Imperial chronicle dealing with the life and times of Genghis Khan and his successors, written about 1240. Üligers, orally transmitted epic stories in verse, form the bulk of native literary expression. Highly stylized, these tales relate . . .
Ψ Energy Conversion » Fundamentals of energy conversion » History of energy-conversion technology » Developments of the industrial revolution » Internal-combustion engines.
While the steam engine remained dominant in industry and transportation during much of the 19th century, engineers and scientists began developing other sources and converters of energy. One of the most important of these was the internal-combustion engine. In such a device a fuel and oxidizer are burned within the engine and the products . . .
Ψ Energy Conversion » Major energy-conversion devices and systems » Internal-combustion engines » Rockets » Development of rockets.
The technology of rocket propulsion appears to have its origins in the period AD 1200-1300 in Asia, where the first "propellant" (a mixture of saltpetre, sulfur, and charcoal called black powder) had been in use for about 1,000 years for other purposes. As is so often the case with the development of technology, the early uses were . . .
Ψ The Art of Literature » Narrative Fiction » Novel » Style » Romanticism
The Romantic movement in European literature is usually associated with those social and philosophical trends that prepared the way for the French Revolution, which began in 1789. The somewhat subjective, anti-rational, emotional currents of romanticism transformed intellectual life in the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods and remained . . .
Ψ The Art of Literature » Narrative Fiction » Novel » Types of novel » Fantasy and prophecy.
The term science fiction is a loose one, and it is often made to include fantastic and prophetic books that make no reference to the potentialities of science and technology for changing human life. Nevertheless, a novel like Keith Roberts’ Pavane (1969), which has as a premise the conquest of England by Spain in 1588, and the . . .
Ψ The Art of Literature » Children’s literature » The development of children’s literature » The criteria applied » three examples » North versus south.
In western Europe there is a sharp variation or unevenness, as between north and south, in the tempo of development. This basic feature was first pointed out by Paul Hazard, a French critic, in Les Livres, les enfants et les hommes (Eng. trans. by Marguerite Mitchell, Books, Children and Men, 1944; 4th ed., 1960): "In the . . .
Ψ The Art of Literature » Children’s literature » Historical sketches of the major literatures » England » Contemporary times.
If the contemporary wood cannot be seen for the trees, it is in part because the number of trees has grown so great. The profusion of English, as of children’s books in general, makes judgment difficult. Livelier merchandising techniques (the spread of children’s bookshops, for example), the availability of cheap paperbacks, improved library . . .
Ψ The Art of Literature » Children’s literature » Historical sketches of the major literatures » United States » Contemporary times.
Since the 1930s the quality and weight of American children’s literature were sharphy affected by the business of publishing, as well as by the social pressures to which children, like adults, were subjected. Intensified commercialization and broad-front expansion had some good effects and some bad ones as well.
Ψ The Art of Literature » Children’s literature » Historical sketches of the major literatures » France » History.
If one skips Jean de La Fontaine, whose Fables (1668; 1678-79; and 1693), though read by the young, were not meant for them, French children’s literature from one point of view begins with the classic fairy tales of Charles Perrault. These were probably intended for the salon rather than the nursery, but their narrative speed and . . .
Ψ Motion Pictures » History » Early Years » 1830-1910 » Méliès and Porter.
The shift in consciousness away from films as animated photographs to films as stories, or narratives, began to take place around the turn of the century and is most evident in the work of the French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Méliès was a professional magician who had become interested in the illusionist . . .
Ψ The History of Technology » Perceptions of technology » Criticisms of technology
Judged entirely on its own traditional grounds of evaluation—that is, in terms of efficiency—the achievement of modern technology has been admirable. Voices from other fields, however, began to raise disturbing questions, grounded in other modes of evaluation, as technology became a dominant influence in society. In the mid-19th century, . . .
Ψ Iceland » Cultural life » The arts
Art in Iceland was long connected with religion, first with the Roman Catholic church and later with the Lutheran church. The first professional secular painters appeared in Iceland in the 19th ...
Ψ rocket » Development of rockets
The technology of rocket propulsion appears to have its origins in the period AD 1200–1300 in Asia, where the first “propellant” (a mixture of saltpetre, sulfur, and charcoal called black powder) had ...
Ψ science fiction » The evolution of science fiction » The 19th and early 20th centuries » Jules Verne
More significant to the genre's formation than Poe was Jules Verne, who counted Poe among his influences and was arguably the inventor of science fiction. Verne's first novel, Paris au XXième siècle ...
Ψ space exploration » History of space exploration » Prelude to spaceflight » Precursors in fiction and fact
Since ancient times, people around the world have studied the heavens and used their observations and explanations of astronomical phenomena for both religious and practical purposes. Some dreamed of ...
Ψ Year in Review 1993 » Biography » Peyron, Bruno
In 1872 the fictional Phileas Fogg traveled Around the World in Eighty Days by train, boat, and elephant. In 1993, more than a century after French author Jules Verne penned that adventure, French yachtsman Bruno Peyron and his four-man crew challenged Fogg’s seemingly unattainable record on the high seas. Seventy-nine days, 6 hours, . . .
Ψ Year in Review 1993 » Sports and Games » Sailing
In his Farr 60 Ragamuffin, veteran campaigner Syd Fischer won the ocean race from Sydney on the Australian mainland to Hobart in Tasmania. This was the 24th time that he had competed in this classic event. Grant Dalton’s Farr-designed maxi, New Zealand Endeavour, placed second.
Ψ Year in Review 1994 » Literature » French
As in every year, there were a number of celebrations in 1994, including the 500th anniversary of the birth of François Rabelais and the 300th of Voltaire. There were not many major new works on Rabelais published during the year. Nevertheless, a short study by Jean-Yves Pouilloux (1993) appeared, and a number of important earlier . . .
Ψ Year in Review 1994 » Sports and Games » Sailing
The Whitbread Round-the-World event dominated large yacht competition for much of the first half of 1994. The new Whitbread-60 class demonstrated that these smaller yachts could match the much larger maxis in almost all conditions. In fact, the best maxi, New Zealand Endeavour, skippered by Grant Dalton, only just managed . . .
Ψ Year in Review 1995 » Biography » Blake, Sir Peter James
A knighthood beats every other distinguishing mark in New Zealand. When the South Pacific nation of 3.5 million people wrested the America’s Cup from the U.S. in mid-May, in the challenge series off San Diego, Calif., Peter Blake served as "grunt" aboard the winning yacht, Black Magic. On board he was a "mainsheet traveler," assisting a . . .
Ψ Year in Review 2001 » Biography » Blake, Sir Peter James
New Zealand yachtsman and explorer (b. Oct. 1, 1948, Auckland, N.Z.—d. Dec. 6, 2001, off Macapá, Braz.), was the winner of the two most important yachting competitions—the Whitbread Round the World ...
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