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The ''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). 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''.〔Notice at the Musée de la Marine, Rochefort〕 == Description == The ''Nautilus'' is described by Verne as "a masterpiece containing masterpieces". It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction from seawater) is the craft's primary power source for propulsion and other services. The ''Nautilus'' is double-hulled, and is further separated into water-tight compartments. Its top speed is 50 knots. Its displacement is 1,356.48 French freight tons emerged (1,507 submerged). In Captain Nemo's own words: The ''Nautilus'' uses floodable tanks in order to adjust buoyancy and so control its depth. The pumps that evacuate these tanks of water are so powerful that they produce large jets of water when the vessel emerges rapidly from the surface of the water. This leads many early observers of the ''Nautilus'' to believe that the vessel is some species of whale, or perhaps a sea monster not yet known to science. To submerge deeply in a short time, ''Nautilus'' uses a technique called "hydroplaning", in which the vessel dives down at a steep angle. The ''Nautilus'' supports a crew that gathers and farms food from the sea. The ''Nautilus'' includes a galley for preparing these foods, which includes a machine that makes drinking water from seawater through distillation. The ''Nautilus'' is not able to refresh its air supply, so Captain Nemo designed to do it by surfacing and exchanging stale air for fresh, much like a whale. The ''Nautilus'' is capable of extended voyages without refuelling or otherwise restocking supplies. Its maximum dive time is around five days. Much of the ship is decorated to standards of luxury that are unequalled in a seagoing vessel of the time. These include a library with boxed collections of valuable oceanic specimens that are unknown to science at the time, expensive paintings, and several collections of jewels. The ''Nautilus'' also features a lavish dining room and even an organ that Captain Nemo uses to entertain himself in the evening. By comparison, Nemo's personal quarters are very sparsely furnished, but do feature duplicates of the bridge instruments, so that the captain can keep track of the vessel without being present on the bridge. These amenities however, are only available to Nemo, Professor Aronnax, and his companions. From her attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thinks it a sea monster, but later identifies it as an underwater vessel capable of great destructive power, after the ''Abraham Lincoln'' is attacked and Ned Land strikes the metallic surface of the ''Nautilus'' with his harpoon. Its parts are built to order in France, the United Kingdom, Prussia, Sweden, the United States, and elsewhere. Then they are assembled by Nemo's men on a desert island. The ''Nautilus'' most likely returned to this island and later helped castaways in the novel ''The Mysterious Island''. After Nemo dies on board, the volcanic island erupts, entombing the Captain and the ''Nautilus'' for eternity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nautilus (Verne)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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