Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

* Cyrus Smith, the leading character in Jules Verne's novel Mysterious Island

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

* Lincoln Island, a fictional island in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island

Instead of Flip or the Princess, Nemo meets Zorro, Alice and Jules Verne's Nautilus ( which was led by Captain Nemo ).

" Indeed, anyone who stops to consider the performance consequences of trail following-let alone link-directed pointer-chasing-over a microfilm library of near universal scope should quickly come to the conclusion that microfilm is no more appropriate a technology for implementing AWMT's vision than Jules Verne's cannon is an appropriate technology for sending astronauts to the Moon.

* Captain Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island ( 1870 )

Visitors can peek inside port windows and see mannequins of Edison and Eiffel ( and Eiffel's daughter, posed with the phonograph ), the tableau commemorating their fabled meeting of September 10, 1899 in which, over cigars and cognac, they discussed possible joint projects and their participation in Jules Verne's " smoking club " for avowed futurists, dubbed Plus Ultra.

Jules Verne's Paris in the Twentieth Century ( 1863 ) includes suspended pneumatic tube trains that stretch across the oceans.

In Michel & Jules Verne's The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 ( 1889 ) submarine tubes carry people faster than aero-trains and the Society for Supplying Food to the Home allows subscribers to receive meals pneumatically.

The idea surfaces again in Jules Verne's The Begum's Fortune ( 1879 ).

* In Jules Verne's novel 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Nautilus travels through an underwater passage beneath the Suez Canal.

The story may have later been an inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

* In Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways, one of the chapters is set on Tristan da Cunha, and a brief history of the island is mentioned.

** The first nuclear-powered submarine, the, logs its 60, 000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel " 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ".

* Jules Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, is published.

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

* Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius ( 2002 ) ( a fictional life of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo )

He is also name-checked in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon as someone who claimed to have seen lunar inhabitants through his telescope, though that particular fact is merely part of Verne's fiction.

Hagbard has parallels to Jules Verne's character, Captain Nemo.

" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.

* fictitious, such as Jules Verne's character Captain Nemo

* 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1961 )

* April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1870 )

* December 17 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer ( d. 1870 )

* Jules Gonin ( 1870 – 1935 ) ( Switzerland ) " Father of retinal detachment surgery ".

* Jules de Goncourt ( 1830 – 1870 ), author / publisher

In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt ( 1830 – 1870 ), the académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903.

The Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( 1870 ) and The Mysterious Island ( 1874 ).

In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules de Goncourt, ( December 17, 1830 – June 20, 1870 ), each December since 1903, the Académie awards the Prix Goncourt.

It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard ( 1842 – 1870 ).

Jules Léotard ( 1842 – 1870 ) was a revolutionary French acrobatic performer who developed the art of trapeze.

Louis Victor Jules Vierne ( 8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937 ) was a French organist and composer.

Captain Nemo, also known as Prince Dakkar, is a fictional character featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( 1870 ) and The Mysterious Island ( 1874 ).

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet ( 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961 ) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist.

Although he had despised the ineptness of the French under Napoleon III and the government of Adolphe Thiers and Jules Favre, he had not planned for all the demands he presented the French in 1870.

Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.

* Jules Léotard ( 1839 – 1870 )

He had a sister, Adélaïde de Lesseps ( 1803 – 1879 ), married to Jules Tallien de Cabarrus ( 19 April 1801 – 1870 ), and two brothers, Théodore de Lesseps ( Cádiz, 25 September 1802 – Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 20 May 1874 ), married in 1828 to Antonia Denois ( Paris, 27 September 1802 – Paris, 29 December 1878 ), and Jules de Lesseps ( Pisa, 16 February 1809 – Paris, 10 October 1887 ), married on 11 March 1874 to Hyacinthe Delarue.

File: The Old Oak by Jules Dupré, c1870. jpg | Jules Dupré, The Old Oak, c. 1870, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

In " Vingt mille lieues sous les mers " ( Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ), first published in 1869 – 1870 in the magazine Magasin d ' Éducation et de Récréation, Jules Verne ( 1828 – 1905 ) wrote:

The street was named after the writers Edmond de Goncourt ( 1822 – 1896 ) and his brother Jules ( 1830 – 1870 ).