Theme: technology
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Innovations at Sea
When the apparatus is at work this gas becomes luminous, giving out a white and continuous light. Thus provided, I can breathe and I can see.” “Captai...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Interconnected Journeys
This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally resolved, moreover, before ac...
The War of the Worlds / Signal Lights
My wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. It was seen early in the ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depth and Dependence
“Let us remain together until we are out of this block.” “As you please, sir,” Conseil replied. I often looked at the instruments hanging from the par...
The War of the Worlds / Mechanical Innovations
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Stealthy Departure
The crew had just finished loading the sodium, and the _Nautilus_ could have left that instant. Did he wish to wait until night, and leave the submari...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Submarine Dinner
The _Nautilus_, like a long rock, emerged from the waves two miles from the beach. Ned Land, without waiting, occupied himself about the important din...
The War of the Worlds / Indiscriminate Warfare
Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal. And shining with the growing light of the east, three ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets of the Deep
The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Capt...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Exploration
At this moment the peak was clearly defined against the sky. The _Nautilus_, diving again under the water, approached the coast, which was only some f...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Instruments of Depth
But these others, no doubt, answer to the particular requirements of the _Nautilus_. This dial with the movable needle is a manometer, is it not?” “It...
The War of the Worlds / Fate of Humanity
And as the day came they became aware of a fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them. He came down the road towards them,...
The War of the Worlds / Alien Encounter
Something was moving to and fro there, very quietly; every now and then it tapped against the wall, or started on its movements with a faint metallic ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nautilus Revelation
The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the _Nautilus_. Then he began his description in these words:— “Here, M. ...
The War of the Worlds / Technological Horror
The Cardigan men had tried a rush, in skirmishing order, at the pit, simply to be swept out of existence. Then the monster had risen to its feet and h...
The War of the Worlds / Sound of Conflict
He would probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound of guns that began about that hour in the south. As if in answer, the ironclad se...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Confusion and Control
Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the “Henrietta,” the bribery of the crew, Fogg managing the boat l...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Colonial Encounters
However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase of the Cetacean
The _Abraham Lincoln_, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal. The latter allowed it to come within half a cable’s length; then...
The War of the Worlds / Chaos and Indifference
It was this howling and firing of the guns at Ripley and St. George’s Hill that we had heard at Upper Halliford. The Ripley gunners, unseasoned artill...