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
The Chase of the Golden Meteor Meteor". In 1986 the Société Jules Verne published the original French version. In 1998 Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, republished "The Chase of the Golden Meteor" in a fully illustrated replica version of the Grant Richards version with an introduction by Gregory A. Benford. In 2006 The Meteor Hunt was published by Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press translated by F. P. Walter and Walter James Miller from the original text by Jules Verne. The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Chase of the Golden Meteor () is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last