Images from the Past: Completely Inaccurate Images from the 1800s

So, I said before the Victorians had some interesting ideas about what the future would bring.  Here’s some of the ones that really missed the mark:

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So not only were we supposed to have hover-boards by 2000, we were supposed to be walking on water with the aid of balloons, weird shoes, and… a unicycle.

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Seconds before a futuristic collision. Still less wait time than the Path.

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Here’s another flying machine. That apparently hovers while the exceptionally well-dressed rural person greets his mailman.

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I love this image, because conquering the depths is not complete until we can gamble underwater.

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I love this image because … I have no idea what they are doing.

 

The Fantasist is a quarterly online magazine that publishes three original Fantasy novellas on the third Thursday of every third month.

And this month, while they celebrate Steampunk, one of them is mine!

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