TIL that Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV published a sci-fi novel in 1894 about life in the year 2000; it includes descriptions of a world wide telephone network, solar power, air travel and space travel to Saturn and Jupiter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_in_Other_Worlds
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Listen to a sci-fi novel by Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV published in 1894 about life in the year 2000; it includes descriptions of a world wide telephone network, solar power, air travel and space travel to Saturn and Jupiter.
https://archive.org/details/journey_other_worlds_0904_librivox/
Who else read the author name on the book and started singing "Jingleheimer Schmidt" in their head ?