The first propeller-driven airship, built by Henri Giffard, flew in 1852 in France; design improvements led to construction of the rigid zeppelin (1900).

第一艘成功的飞船是法国的吉法尔于1852年制造的，后来经过不断的改进，导致1900年齐柏林飞船的建构。

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Nobody bats 1, 000, of course--not even the master, and many of the things Verne predicted have failed to appear, such as the movable 10-square-mile island built by a group of millionaires in Propeller Island (1895): Home to a large city, it moved around the Pacific Ocean on electric power.

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The hovercraft which suffered the propeller failure is five years old and was built on the Isle of Wight.

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