[Lee Stewart]

From the novel Robur the Conqueror, published in 1886

The Nautilus was not the only futuristic mode of transportation to emerge from Jules Verne’s imagination. A helicopter also shows up in his writing. The flying machine made a marked impression on one young reader named Igor Sikorsky, inspiring him to create his own version that took to the skies for the first time in 1939. Sikorsky loved to quote Verne, often saying, “anything that one man can imagine, another can make real.”