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29: 274:), Robur appears at the meeting and is admitted to speak. He chastises the group for being balloon-boosters when "heavier than air" flying apparatuses are the future. When asked if Robur himself has "made conquest of the air", he states that he has, leading to him accepting the title "Robur the Conqueror". During his short time at the Weldon Institute, Robur so incites the members that they chase him outside. Just as they are about to attack him, Robur appears to vanish into the mob, but he has actually been borne away by a flying machine. 1793: 832: 900: 513:
with propellers on its masts instead of sails, is replaced by a more contemporary design resembling a classic airship, or dirigible; though still given propellers for lift. The vessel is described in the film as being a 'heavier than air machine of several tons,' a statement later explained as the
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is a fantastic vessel, or that their notions of "lighter than air" superiority are wrong. They demand that Robur release them, but he is aloof and always says that they shall remain as long as he desires it. Fearing they will be held captive forever, the two formulate plans both to escape and to
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to drive the vessel forward. It bears the same black flag with golden sun that has been sighted on many landmarks, and a crewmen playing a trumpet accounts for the music in the sky. To demonstrate the vessel's superiority, Robur takes his captives around the world in the course of three weeks.
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explodes and its wreckage, along with Robur and his crew, plunges towards the ocean. Meanwhile, the three escapees are safe on a small but inhabited island and are later rescued by a ship; they then make a long journey back to Philadelphia.
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for repairs. While the crew is busy at work, Prudent and Evans light a fuze and make their escape. They try to bring Frycollin with them but cannot find him, only later discovering that he had already escaped without them. The
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The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. Then black flags with gold suns mysteriously appear atop tall historic landmarks such as the
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was heavily damaged while within the blast radius of one of its own bombs, and was finally damaged beyond repair and sank into the ocean when the gunpowder in its armory exploded due to sabotage by the passengers.
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he plans to bomb the military forces of the world until all nations concede to his demands. (In contrast, the novel's Robur has no such aims, and bombs only one ground target: an African coronation where a mass
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is completed and making its maiden voyage with the president, secretary, and an aeronaut. The speed and maneuverability of the dirigible impress a huge crowd, but are trivial compared to Robur's
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Having demonstrated his rule over the skies, Robur returns the three men to the ground. In a short speech, Robur says that nations are not yet fit for union. He cautions the crowd that it is
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Instead of the Weldon Institute members, he kidnaps Mr. Prudent of Philadelphia, an armaments manufacturer, along with his daughter Dorothy and her fiancé Phillip Evans.
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The Weldon Institute members return, and rather than describe their adventures or admit that Robur had created a flying machine greater than their expectations of the
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as a raft until they were rescued by a ship. Later, Robur and the crew made it back to his secret X Island, where the original
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In this version, Robur is an idealist who plans to conquer the world in order to put an end to tyranny and war. Using the
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vessel 'is made entirely of straw paper, mixed with dextrin and clay, and squeezed in a hydraulic press...'
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plays Strock, the reluctant hero who comes to admire Robur, but not enough to let him carry out his plans.
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to fly high enough to be impervious to contemporary weapons fire. When flown low to the ground, though,
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as Robur. The film kept the basic concept but added elements of intrigue and a romance to the plot.
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Members of the Weldon Institute are all firm believers that mankind shall master the skies using
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is retained, though the novel's description and early illustrations that suggest a flush-decked
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and now intends to exact revenge by showing that it is superior to the Weldon Institute's
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Prudent and Evans are angry at Robur for kidnapping them and unwilling to admit that the
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The entirety of the final scene is described from the crowd's point of view. The
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exploded, enough of it was intact so that at least some of the propellers
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limit, whereupon her gas bags rupture. Losing her buoyant gases, the
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in Paris. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (the
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in the back of Volume 2 indicates that Robur is conscripted to lead
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A character similar to Robur, named "Alexandre LeRoi", appears in
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would be unfeasible. The institute has been constructing a giant
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Robur is mentioned several times in the first three volumes of
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After the horizontal propellers are damaged in a storm, the
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as she falls, signalling the pilot and passengers of the
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drops out of the sky like a rapidly descending kite. The
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Later that night Robur kidnaps the Weldon Institute's
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Index


LĂ©on Benett
Jules Verne
LĂ©on Benett
The Extraordinary Voyages
Science fiction
Pierre-Jules Hetzel
The Lottery Ticket
North Against South
Jules Verne
Master of the World
Statue of Liberty
Great Pyramid of Giza
Eiffel Tower
specific epithet
Quercus robur
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"lighter than air" craft
"heavier than air"
airplanes
helicopters
dirigible
in front to pull it
behind to push it
president
secretary
valet
aeronef
airscrews
lift

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