Nautilus (Verne) ordinary folk have envisioned over the decades their own interpretations of "Nautilus": A Catalog of "Nautilus" Designs 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
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne countries around the world, where it received widespread attention. It is considered the most successful Czech film ever made. A gang of pirates kidnap a scientist and two others to get the secret of the scientist's futuristic weapon to aid them with their piracy. Karel Zeman, a Czech film director and animator, was deeply influenced by the novels of Jules Verne, making four feature films between 1955 and 1970 drawing extensively on Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" series. The first of these, "Journey to the Beginning of Time", was inspired by "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and featured a scene