Jules Verne's Nautilus is an "enormous cylinder of sheet iron," l'enorme cylindre de tôle. Is is a streamlined, tapering at each end, and mostly free of angular protrusions. The Nautilus is quite a large ship, 70 meters (230 feet) long and 8 meters (26.2 feet) wide.

Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1870) contains two of his most memorable creations, the mysterious Captain Nemo and a marvelous submarine, the Nautilus. However, Jules Verne did not invent the submarine.

Миронова Мария, ученица МБОУ «Лицей № 4 «Многопрофильный» г. Пскова