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The Plongeur, inspiration for the Nautilus. Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). [6] 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. [7]
Its depiction of Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of modern submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels. Jules Verne saw a model of the French submarine Plongeur at the Exposition Universelle in 1867, which inspired him while writing the ...
Nautilus surfaces, and Nemo's crew brings the four rescued individuals aboard the submarine. The four include master harpooner Ned Land, a professor Pierre Aronnax, his daughter, and the professor's assistant. Once aboard the submarine, the four must swear they will not attempt to escape.
2 Largest submarine? 3 Jules Verne's influence. 4 SS-168. ... Talk: List of ships named Nautilus. Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages.
The 10-episode live-action series inspired by the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea “tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo, an Indian prince robbed of his ...
Sharing a name with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas [8] and the USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II, [9] the new nuclear-powered Nautilus was authorized in 1951.
Nautilus (1800 submarine), a French First Republic sub designed by Fulton, considered the first practical sub (1800–1802) French submarine Nautilus (1930), a French Navy sub, a Saphir-class submarine (1927–1947) HMS Nautilus (1914), a UK Royal Navy sub, the largest RN sub at service entry (1914–1922) USS Nautilus (SS-168), a U.S. Navy sub ...
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