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I've always thought that SF and Fantasy were two sides of the same coin. If something is done by pushing a button it's science fiction, but if it's done by mumbling magic words then it's fantasy. Granted there are different shades of both so there isn't a clear cut dividing line between them but even in the early days of Science Fiction there was a touch of Fantasy. Cavorite is an example of that. Wells used it to get his characters from the Earth to the Moon where as Verne used a more hard science approach. Wells invention of the Time Machine is another bit of fantasy if you think about it as he used 19th century technology (the 1st steampunk) to create his Time Machine. On the other hand he did extrapolate a break between social classes (the Morlocks and Eloi) in the distant future. So there was a bit of Science Fiction and Fantasy mixed together even then.
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