Nautilus is a unique submarine described in Verne's classic science fiction novel Two Wan Li under the Sea. The novel describes Nautilus as a slender spindle-shaped submarine, 70 meters long and 8 meters wide, with excellent navigation performance and a maximum speed of 50 knots.
This is an idealized submarine. The ship is completely driven by electricity, which is extracted from seawater and mixed with mercury to form an alloy to replace zinc in bunsen burner battery cells, and then converted into electricity and stored in the battery. The food is full of fish, seaweed, etc. So the energy and necessities of the crew come from the sea. It doesn't need land supply at all, and it can sail indefinitely at sea.
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Two Wan Li under the Sea mainly tells the story of the submarine Nautilus. 1866, a monster suspected of narwhal was found at sea. Professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant Conseil were invited to take part in the chase, but unfortunately they fell into the water and landed on the monster's back. It is found that this monster is not a narwhal, but a submarine with wonderful structure.
This submarine was secretly built by Captain Nemo on a desert island in the middle of the ocean. It has a solid hull and uses sodium decomposed from a large amount of sodium chloride in the ocean to generate electricity. Captain Nemo invited Pierre Aronnax to travel to the bottom of the sea. They set out from the Pacific Ocean, passed through coral islands, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, and entered the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. They saw many rare marine animals and plants and strange scenes in the water, and experienced many dangers such as stranding, indigenous siege, fighting with sharks, iceberg road closure, octopus attack and so on.
Finally, when the submarine arrived at the Norwegian coast, Pierre Aronnax left without saying goodbye and returned to his hometown.