USS Nautilus (SSN-571) Nuclear Landmark. Visitors may tour the forward two compartments, with guidance from an automated system. Despite similar alterations to exhibit the engineering spaces, tours aft of the control room are not permitted due to safety and security concerns. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) USS "Nautilus" (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and named after another that served with distinction in World War
Jules Verne bibliography system developed by Pierre-Jules Hetzel for the "Voyages Extraordinaires", each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in several distinct editions of each texts, as follows. The posthumously published volumes in the "Voyages Extraordinaires" were extensively altered and in some cases entirely written by Verne's son Michel. Jules Verne bibliography Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Most famous for his novel sequence, the "Voyages Extraordinaires", Verne also wrote assorted short stories, plays, miscellaneous novels, essays, and poetry. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction and on surrealism,