from Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor, American Public Media, Minnesota Public Radio):
It’s the birthday of the man known as the father of science fiction, Jules Verne, born in Nantes, France (1828). In his adventure novels, Paris in the 20th Century (written 1863, not published until 1994), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Verne described inventions that were similar to modern airplanes and automobiles, and tall skyscrapers where people use electricity to listen to the radio and send faxes, and yet he wrote his stories by candlelight.
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