"Paris in the Twentieth Century" by Jules Verne (1863)

What it predicted: The submarine and lunar landing

Many critics agree that Verne's dystopian "Paris in the Twentieth Century" wasn't his greatest work, but what makes it most interesting are the inventions he predicted almost 100 years before they were actually made. They include the submarine and the technology needed to land on the moon.

These inventions were seen in some of Verne's other books, but "Paris" was written even before these; it just wasn't published—or even heard of—until Verne's great-grandson discovered the manuscript in 1989 in a supposedly empty safe.

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