Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as an inhabitant of British Colonial India, "is an inhabitant of an oppressed country". Verne took the name "Nautilus" from one of the earliest successful submarines, built in 1800 by Robert Fulton, who later invented the first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton's submarine was named after the paper nautilus because it had a sail. Three years before writing his novel, Jules Verne also studied a model of the newly developed French Navy submarine "Plongeur" at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him for his definition of the "Nautilus". The breathing apparatus used by "Nautilus" divers is depicted as an untethered version
Jules Verne (train) Jules Verne (train) The Jules Verne was an express train that linked Paris and Nantes in France. Operated by the "Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français" (SNCF), it was the last new Trans Europ Express (TEE) to be introduced, in 1980. The train was named after the French author Jules Verne, who was born in Nantes. It was replaced by a TGV in 1989. The "Jules Verne"s route was via the Paris–Brest railway as far as Le Mans, then via the Le Mans–Angers railway and finally via the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway. The train had the following stops: The train operated