Nuclear submarine nuclear-powered submarine was first proposed in the United States Navy by the Naval Research Laboratory's Ross Gunn in 1939. Construction of the world's first nuclear powered submarine was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Bureau of Ships and the Atomic Energy Commission. In July 1951 the U.S. Congress authorized construction of the first nuclear-powered submarine, "Nautilus", under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover, USN (sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea",
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,