Can literature predict the future? Go to www.inventivekids.com/games.html and click on the TIME MACHINE square At the bottom of the new page you will find a time line, click on the different years to match them with the info below Ancient Greek Myth – 1488 – 1726 – 1818 – 1827 – 1865 – 1869 – 1888 – 1899 – 1946 – 1958 – 1966 – 1990 _  Artist Leonardo DaVinci wrote “… of creating a screw instrument from wood and starched linen, that when turned rapidly will climb upwards” and then he sketched it _  Icarus tries to fly but falls to earth when the sun melts his wax and feather wings _  In A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, author Jane C Louden imagines using canned oxygen during space travel _  In Frankestein, author Mary Shelly’s Dr Frankestein performs transplant surgery! _  In From the Earth to the Moon, author Jules Verne imagines space travel and sends three men in a cone shaped capsule to meet the “Queen of the Starry Night” _  In Gulliver’s Travels, author Jonathan Swift imagines a new way of learning using energy wires that transmit knowledge through large loops to many people at one time _  In Looking Backward, author Edward Bellamy imagines a world in the future where all stores in cities are in one building _  In the Dick Tracy comic series, creator Chester Gould’s detective, Dick Tracy, uses a two way wrist radio to call for help! _  In the horror movie The Fly a human is transformed into a new creature that is half human and half fly _  In the TV series Star Trek, creator Gene Roddenbery imagines a starship medical kit with scanners, cortical stimulators and hypo sprays _  In Twenty Thousands Leagues under the Sea, author Jules Verne invents an underwater vessel and calls it the “Nautilus” _  In When the Seeper Wakes author H.G Wells imagines a metal box that plays sounds and pictures when metal cylinder is inserted _  In the book Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton imagines a way to recreate extinct dinosaurs using new technology and science! The Future  Once you have seen the transformations… complete the following chart: Prediction? Ancient Greek Myth 1488 1726 1818 1827 1865 1869 1888 1899 1946 1958 1966 1990 WHAT? WHEN? WHO?