The details match the reality incredibly well.

A collection of 87 colorful paintings from 1899 discovered by accident surprisingly predicted many of today's scientific inventions.

According to a post on Dailymail, these prophetic paintings were discovered by chance in a cardboard box at Hansons auction house (Derbyshire), England, as part of a collection called "En L'An 2000" (And in the year 2000). They were published in 1899, originally for cigar/cigarette boxes, and later printed as postcards due to their popularity.

These prophetic paintings were discovered by chance in a cardboard box at Hansons auction house (Derbyshire), England. (Photo: Dailymail)

The series includes images of people playing croquet underwater with sophisticated breathing apparatus, whales carrying people in the deep sea, winged firefighters extinguishing fires from the air, fish racing and air taxis soaring over cities.

Interestingly, in addition to the humorous ideas, some of the drawings accurately predicted scientific advances and inventions, such as the helicopter. In fact, the world's first helicopter did not come into use until 1939, 40 years after the illustrations were made.

Some paintings accurately predicted scientific advances and inventions, such as the helicopter. (Photo: Dailymail)

A picture has been painted of a future life with technology being applied in ways beyond imagination. For example, the vision of video calling like Skype/Facetime has been around for over a century.

A picture has been painted of future life with video calling technology like Skype/Facetime that appeared more than a century ago. (Photo: Dailymail)

Another postcard shows a machine that scans the body and automatically prints clothes on demand . This is slowly becoming a reality with the development of 3D scanning systems. Amazon has even patented technology to produce clothes on site.

A machine that scans the body and automatically prints clothes on demand is depicted in the picture. (Photo: Dailymail)

In 1910, the first commercial flight was still a dream, but postcards envisioned airborne firefighting. Today, drones are being used to monitor wildfires.

Postcards have envisioned airborne firefighters. (Photo: Dailymail)

The ancients predicted listening to the news at home on demand. The future was filled with new forms of entertainment, such as electric roller skates, an invention that has now become a reality. Visions of home automation included a dishwasher-like device. There are even robots that can do people’s hair.

Jim Spencer, of Hansons auction house, shared his amazement at finding these vivid prints with surreal visions of the future. “I was even more surprised when I started researching them and realised their scarcity,” he added.

According to Mr. Spencer, the collection he found included several individual designs, printed in color on eight uncut cards. The series "En L'An 2000" was created by French artists, including Jean-Marc Cote, to illustrate the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. They were originally intended to be printed on cigar/cigarette boxes, but financial difficulties forced the project to be scrapped. Later, several more designs were added, bringing the total to 87, and were printed as postcards, but were also not issued.

The collection was forgotten until the 1980s, when science fiction writer Isaac Asimov stumbled upon a set of postcards and featured them in his book "Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000."

"En L'An 2000" was auctioned at Hansons' Library Auction (Bishton Hall, Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire) on 31 July 2019. Experts consider the collection to be extremely rare and possibly the first time such an original set of paintings has come up for sale.

Nguyet Pham (Source: Dailymail)

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