"My colleagues and I travel into the 20th century every day. It is a happy and wondrous place."
-Geoffrey Hawkins
October 1, 1882
"It looms on the horizon, this great mechanical sun we call the future."
-Timothy Deakin
24 December, 1881
"We only wish to look over the shoulder of M. Verne and chance a glimpse of the marvelous future he always seems to see outside his window."
-Berkley Vanderzee
March 18, 1883