Tag

verne

• Astronaut, nautical and the sailor rootAstronaut means star sailor. The naut- root runs through nautical, nausea and Nautilus.
• The Great Eastern and Isambard Kingdom BrunelWhy anyone built a ship five times too big, and the brilliant engineer it killed.
• Fulton's Nautilus, a submarine for NapoleonRobert Fulton built a working submarine for France in 1800, seven years before his famous steamboat.
• Jules Verne's A Floating CityVerne's 1871 novel of his own 1867 crossing on the Great Eastern. Good as a travelogue today, thin as a story.
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasProfessor Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land aboard the Nautilus with Captain Nemo, "no one." The leagues are distance traveled, not depth.