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 ATV with waste for disposal. In total, of water, of oxygen and of propellant was transferred to the "Zvezda" module, and "Jules Verne" was also used to reboost the space station on four occasions. About of dry cargo was removed from the ATV and remained aboard the ISS. In addition, two original manuscripts by Jules Verne, as well as an illustrated French edition of Pierre-Jules Hetzel's "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon", were delivered to the crew of the ISS by the ATV. The thrusters of "Jules Verne" were fired for just over 5 minutes on 27