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Jules Verne's: REMARKABLE SUBMARINE PROPHECIES

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From: Sea Classics
Date: 20050401
Author:Whitman, Edward C

Classic science-fiction writer Jules Verne was amazingly prophetic in foretelling both the design and use of submarines nearly a century before the first nuclear submersibles went to sea

With its imaginative technology, Capt. Nemo's engineering plant for Nautilus is certainly the most extraordinary aspect of his design. On behalf of his nautical protagonist, Verne conceived what was essentially an "all-electric" ship at a time when the first practical applications of electricity were only a few decades old and a century before building any such ships became feasible. In Capt. Nemo's ...

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