The future was never brighter and enthusiasm for technology never greater than during the brief period between the eve of the 20th century and the outbreak of the First World War Electricity radioactivity the fi rst motorized fl ight radio telegraphy nothing seemed impossible for human ingenuity Even the working world was soon going to look a lot diff erent than it used to Grandpa s Journey to the Moon Just combine the design of the fi rst motorized aircraft with the cabin of a stagecoach and you ve got yourself a spaceship The illustrators of the early 20th century would frequently extrapolate technologies that were available at the time to visualize the future 40

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