Read the beginning of Chapter 1 from The Year 3000: A Dream by Paolo Mantegazza, edited and with an introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, translated by David Jacobson:

"Paolo and Maria left Rome, capital of the United States of Europe, in the largest of their aerotachs, the one intended for long trips.

This is an electrically run airship. By releasing a spring, they convert the two comfortable armchairs in the middle of the ship into quite comfortable beds. Opposite the chair-beds are a compass, a small table, and a quadrant bearing the three words motion, heat, light.

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