The predictions that will be described today seemed at one time a figment of a sick imagination. But they came true! Of course, these can be accidents and premonitions. However, many of the predictions are described with such accuracy that it seems that the people who described them were able to visit the future.
Organ transplant
It was written in the 17th century: "The times will come when people will be able to transplant heart, kidney, liver and other organs from one body to another."
This was written by the physicist Robert Boyle in 1662. He argued that in the future it would be possible to treat people with internal organ transplants. In those days, which were considered the era of the heyday of superstition, the idea of transplantation of internal organs was considered a manifestation of progressive thinking.
By the way, this is not the only prediction of the physicist, in 1657 he described a device that resembles a modern GPS navigator.
Man landing on the moon
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In 1865, Jules Verne wrote a novel entitled “From the Earth to the Moon in a Direct Way in 97 Hours 20 Minutes.” Of course, there could be suggestions that a person will someday get to the Earth's satellite. However, in his book, the writer described everything with amazing accuracy: the launch of the spacecraft from Florida, its name, the number of astronauts on board and the feeling of weightlessness that astronauts experienced in space In the 19th century, humanity did not even know how heaviness felt in weightlessness.
Mobile phone
In 1909, Nikola Tesla predicted the invention of wireless networks and personal devices.
“Very soon, people will be able to communicate with each other around the world without wires. Each person will have a communication apparatus, Nikola Tesla told the New York Times over a hundred years ago.
Wreck of the Titanic
In 1898, a little-known writer Morgan Robertson wrote a short story “The Futility or the Wreck of Titan.” The story accurately conveyed the dimensions of the steamer, and its wreck from a collision with an iceberg. …
Nuclear weapon
Another writer, H. G. Wells, at the beginning of the last century described in his books a rocket engine, laser and flying machines capable of accommodating hundreds of people and making round-the-world flights without stopping. Then the writer was the object of ridicule of many physicists. But Wells' most interesting revelation came in 1914 in his book World Free, in which he predicted the emergence of nuclear weapons. Excerpt from the book: "Until today, the battlefields of that crazy war contain dangerous radioactive substances and are objects of dangerous radiation."