Jules Verne Quote

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe.... [The Americans] are great boilermakers.


Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)


I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall...

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall...

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall...

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall...