Ideas of a genius!

Today is World Creativity and Innovation Day, so let’s salute the most inventive – and also, the most unpredictable of Hergé’s characters: Professor Calculus.

In his laboratory, ideas come thick and fast.

Brilliant, whimsical, sometimes dangerously innovative... but always unforgettable. Like his famous clothes brushing machine, capable of tearing Captain Haddock to shreds in just one turn of the belt. Not forgetting his foldaway bed, his shark submarine or his incredible motorised skates, to name but a few.

But Calculus is not simply limited to a collection of explosive discoveries.

Above all he possesses an endless curiosity, a total freedom of thought and an unshakeable faith in science and progress. A free spirit that reminds us with humour that imagination has no limits and that the most unexpected ideas undoubtedly leave the most lasting traces.

Let's not forget that Professor Calculus imagined the very first crewed spacecraft capable of landing on the Moon... long before humanity actually achieved it!