Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874). Verne named the "Nautilus" after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine "Nautilus" (1800). 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. "Nautilus" is described by Verne as "a masterpiece containing masterpieces". It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction
Captain Nemo Island" gives this date as June 22, 1867.) Captain Nemo dies on the "Nautilus" under Lincoln Island in "The Mysterious Island" on October 15, 1868. Therefore, some chronological inconsistencies still exist: Cyrus and Gideon knew of Captain Nemo years before Aronnax published his story, Nemo being trapped under Lincoln Island all during the time in "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea". In most subsequent media adaptations of "20,000 Leagues" and "Mysterious Island", Nemo is (in a deviation from Verne's novels) depicted as a European. Nemo is the official file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment; the name plays off of the