
Two 100ft foiling trimarans crossed the start line off Brest this morning, in a tantalising head-to-head battle for the Jules Verne Trophy. Steampunk, as it is known, brings together . See eight real-life inventions dreamed up decades earlier by Jules Verne — whose 183rd birthday is honored Tuesday with a doodle. Therefore the mission of Jules Verne was different from the textbook missions that later ATVs used.
Launch: March 2008. ATV-was closed in Ariane fairing on . The great French novelist and poet Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) is best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of . A visionary who wrote about submarines when none existed in his 18novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne is often . Verne and his editor Pierre- Jules Hetzel commissioned these illustrations from no fewer than eight artists, a group including Edouard Riou, .
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