On this day, 120 years ago, on March 24, 1905 (February 19, 1905 lunar calendar), French science fiction writer Jules Verne died. Jules Verne On March 24, 1905, the popular French writer Jules Verne died in Amiens. Verne was born in Nantes, France on February 8, 1828. In 1863, his novel "Five Weeks on a Balloon" made him famous and rich. After this, he wrote a series of thrillers and science fiction novels such as "Around the Earth in Eighty Days", "20,000 Miles Under the Sea" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth". In "Mysterious Island", he brilliantly foresaw many future scientific instruments and developments, including submarines, underwater breathing apparatus, television, and space travel. Now all this has become a reality. Jules Verne is a famous 19th century French science fiction and adventure writer, known as "the father of modern science fiction", has written "twenty thousand miles under the sea", "Journey to the center of the earth" and other famous science fiction novels. In 1848, he went to Paris to study law and wrote short stories and screenplays. From 1863, he began to publish science fiction adventure novels, which rose to fame under the general name "Strange Wanderings in the Known and Unknown Worlds". Represented as a trilogy: "Sons and Daughters of Captain Grant" "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea" "Mysterious Island". Verne wrote a total of sixty-six novels and short story collections, as well as several screenplays, a volume "French Geography" and a six-volume "The Great Traveler and the Great Travel History". His main works include more than 20 full-length science fiction adventures such as "Five Weeks on a Balloon", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Mysterious Island", "The Black Indies", "The Lost Peninsula", and "Around the Earth in Eighty Days". He was also a teacher to many inventors, and Verne wrote his science fiction in such detail and accuracy that many academic societies sometimes took weeks to calculate the numbers listed in his books. Not only that, Verne's novels are full of science, and many science fiction things are now a reality.