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Re: Verne's Chemist

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:57:55 +0100 (CET)
To: "Vasbinder, Sam" <svasbinder~at~malone.edu>
Cc: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hello Sam,

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Vasbinder, Sam wrote:

> I was just going over your wonderful site. Thanks for allt of this. I have
> been nuts about Verne since seventh grade. I am looking for any information
> on the "Austrian Chemist" Leniebroek who invented the steel balls used as
> missiles in the airguns of the Nautilus. Any ideas of where I might find
> this guy? Again, I enjoyed the site immensely. Sam

The only results of a Google search for Leniebroek were online versions of
20,000 leagues. I am sure that Verne did not invent this chemist, so he
must have read about the electric bullets in some popular-scientific
magazine. He probably made a typo when copying the name. 'Leniebroek'
doesn't sound very German. Perhaps the real name is Leniebrock, or even
Leibrock (which is an existing name)?

I cc this reply to the JV forum. Perhaps one of its members has any clue
of who 'Leniebroek' was.

Best regards,
Garmt.
Received on Wed 29 Jan 2003 - 11:58:39 IST

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