Nautilus (fictional submarine)

The Plongeur, inspiration for the Nautilus
Nautilus under way
Nautilus, as pictured in The Mysterious Island

Nautilus is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus (1800).[1] For the design of the Nautilus, Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine Plongeur, a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel.[2]

  1. ^ Skrabec, Quentin R. (2005). The Metallurgic Age: The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science (revised ed.). Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 44. ISBN 9781476611136. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ^ Notice at the Musée de la Marine, Rochefort

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