20 Freakishly Specific Predictions From History That Came True

11. Robert Boyle Predicts More Than 15 Future Scientific Inventions... In The 1600s (1662)

Irish chemist and physicist Robert Boyle discovered "Boyle's Law" - which relates pressure and volume in gas - but he also published a "wish list" of 24 possible future inventions in 1662. Of the 24, at least 15 have come true. They include: "The art of flying" - the first aircraft took flight in 1903. "The art of continuing long under water and the exercise of functioning freely there" - the first mechanical submarine was launched in 1863. "The cure of diseases at a distance or at least by transplantation" - transplants became regular medical procedures by the end of the 19th Century. Mr Boyle had quite a wish list - and if he gets his way, than "the prolongation of life" will soon follow...