Theme: progress
Around the World in Eighty Days / Time and Travel
Calcutta was reached at seven in the morning, and the packet left for Hong Kong at noon; so that Phileas Fogg had five hours before him. According to ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Communication and Time
But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have...
Gulliver's Travels / Moral Dilemma
The king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made. “He was amazed, how so impotent...
The War of the Worlds / Conflict and Machinery
I turned to a scowling face, and silent, eloquent lips. He wanted the slit, which permitted only one of us to peep through; and so I had to forego wat...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Decisive Moment
Fix was on the point of entering another carriage, when an idea struck him which induced him to alter his plan. I’ve got my man.” Just then the locomo...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Geographical Transition
Between this and the railway extended vast plains, plentifully irrigated. On the right rose the lower spurs of the mountainous mass which extends sout...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nature versus Technology
Besides, to work was to quit the _Nautilus_, and breathe directly the pure air drawn from the reservoirs, and supplied by our apparatus, and to quit t...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Loss of Tradition
The captain and passengers do not prepare for their departure by offering propitiatory sacrifices; and, on their return, they no longer go ornamented ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Journey
Can it give heat to a dead body?” “Not that I know of.” “Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable an...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Nature
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another. The ...
The War of the Worlds / Nature and Mechanization
Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I have ever seen. The thunderclaps, treading one on the heels of anoth...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Train Decoupling Incident
There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he woul...
The War of the Worlds / Control and Chaos
I am not an expert driver, and I had immediately to turn my attention to the horse. When I looked back again the second hill had hidden the black smok...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Railway Expectations
This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in time.” There was nothing to say to so confident a response. It was but too true that the railway came...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions
"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...
The War of the Worlds / Technological Innovation
These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...