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Early science fiction

File:Aerial house3.jpg

Original - "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house). Drawing by French science fiction writer Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a nineteenth century conception of life in the twentieth century. Depicts a dwelling that can rotate on a post with an airship in the distance. Ink over graphite underdrawing, c. 1883.

Reason

Old conceptions of the future often look quaint, and this one is downright charming. Notice the couple flirting through the rooftops at lower left. Restored version of File:Aerial house.jpg. Reduced size version available at File:Aerial house3 courtesy copy.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Albert Robida, History of science fiction, Scientific romance, Steampunk#Proto-steampunk

Creator

Albert Robida

• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 02:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support Excellent depiction of early science fiction. Well known artist, visually interesting. Chillum 02:57, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

• I am going to see if I can get a better copy from the original. Chillum 02:59, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• Does anyone know why I can't have an image with more than 12.5 million pixels suddenly File:Aerial_house3.png when I have uploaded 35 million pixel images before without issue File:British Columbia Parliament Buildings - Pano - HDR.jpg? This makes it very hard to have the best possible image. Chillum 04:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

• That's the .png bug. Durova^Charge! 05:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

• As it stands, it's a DOS vulnerability. You can't use progressive JPEGs either. MER-C 05:56, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

• Tim makes a very good point there. I will try tomorrow with a better jpeg than what is up. I will link to the png from the jpgs file page. Chillum 06:32, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

• Support. This is a marvelous find.--ragesoss (talk) 03:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support What a great image!--Caspian blue 02:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support, lovely. Greatly benefitted from restoration. J Milburn (talk) 21:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Aerial house3.jpg MER-C 01:06, 7 March 2009 (UTC)