People of 100 years ago predicted the future: drawing aimlessly but becoming

These paintings show that the imagination of people nearly a century ago is very diverse without "fiction".

In the 20s of the last century, France's Le Petit Journal weekly published the world's foreseeable technological breakthroughs after 100 years.

These works seem to be composed only for entertainment, but inadvertently become the inspiration of many future inventors.

Some of today's ideas have been materialized by humans, even shortly after these pictures were published. However, there are still some ideas that are still just on the page, or are people developing in a different direction.

1. "Electric train" in the future

This electric train will move with a nose-mounted propeller like an airplane and run on a power source connected at the top like the design of a classic electric train.

2. Launch a rocket to space

The missile is 6m long and takes people up to 10,000m and lands with an umbrella system. Scientist brother Otto Ficher - Bruno, volunteered to be the person sitting in the rocket.

3. Artificial lightning

Scientists are gathering at the Ampère laboratory to perform experiments to create artificial lightning. These lightning bolts are made of a special electronic device with a current of up to 3 million volts.

4. Airport floating in the Atlantic Ocean

In the 20s of the twentieth century, the French thought of building an airport in the middle of the Atlantic at the midpoint of the gap between France and the United States. This airport will be used to serve flights between these two countries.

5. Breakthrough design for racing

The picture depicts a curve at the track in Touraine, France. In the painting, the No. 6 car possesses a novel design that is supposed to help reduce wind resistance and increase vehicle speed.

6. "Supercar" possesses speed exceeding the train

The French painter imagined a spectacular chase between a terrible car and a train fleet - the vehicle was supposed to be the fastest move of the time. Sitting in the car were reporters, they chased the train to get sensational information about the bandits on the train.

7. Exploring by strange means

In the picture, Professor Piccard has just come out of a strange machine, thought to be a special balloon that helps him explore places with extreme weather like snowy mountains.

8. Wading tanks

This is a terrain tank given by the French painter who can travel in any terrain condition, whether it is a landslide, or even a river bottom.

9. "Invite each other" to the sky to see . Eclipse

To see more clearly the phenomenon of total eclipse, the pilots have invited each other . to fly to the sky, to overcome the fog to observe and record the entire process of this phenomenon.

10. Fight monsters on the seabed

This black diver guy encountered an octopus "monster" while on duty. With a special protective suit, he constantly resisted the beast's rampage.

11. Discovered alive prehistoric reptiles

The people in Patagonia and South America discovered a giant reptile in a deep swamp in the jungle. The reptile was identified as a Plesiosaur, an extinct carnivorous reptile 65 million years ago.

12. Riding car excursions on snowy mountains

Ancient people believe that future people will be comfortable sitting on "box cars" equipped with special tires to enjoy the snowy scenery.

13. Skydiving from dizzying height

Nearly a century ago, people had ambitions to create a parachute jump record from a height of about 7.4km to the ground. In fact, today people have been able to skydive from a much higher altitude: 41.1km.

14. Conquer the Sahara desert by car

Many people dreamed of a car with a crawler on the desert. With this invention, adventurers will have more conditions to explore the Sahara desert - the largest desert in the world.

15. "Iron man" under the sea

The ancients had imagined that people wore steel and bronze robes, dived to a depth of 80 meters on the seabed to serve research to salvage the wrecked ship Lusitania in 1915.

16. Work accidents at major construction works

Hundreds of workers working at the bridge construction site in France are in a very dangerous situation when the scaffolding at a bridge collapses. At least 5 workers fell into the famous Seine river.

17. "La Liberté" resurgence ship

Workers are carrying specialized equipment and dive to the bottom of the sea to recover, repair and "revive" the ship La Liberté, the famous French ship exploded and sank into Toulon Bay in France at the end of the month. 9 years 1911.

18. Diving costumes of the future

With such advanced diving costumes, it will not be difficult for a diver to swim down the Seine to find evidence of the case.

19. The skyscraper will be the future of humanity

The land is crowded - so skyscrapers will be the best choice for Americans and residents of France.

20. The torpedoes will be a disaster in the military in the future

The old painters predicted, if not carefully studied, torpedoes would be a disaster in the future military.

21. The hero rescues the plane

The ancients seem a little "delusional" when they think that in the future, if the plane is in trouble and a pilot - and an engineer can use his hand, it will not help the plane land safely.

22. "Surgery" for balloon

The French predicted that, in the future Shenandoah - the famous American balloon would fail during landing, and force engineers to "operate" to re-install this new "nose" balloon. .