Selasa, 07 November 2017

The Navy’s big, green monster

The first U.S. submarine targeted wretched Rebel ironclads. In 1869, Jules Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a novel about circumnavigating the  globe underwater, in which he introduced readers to Captain Nemo’s submarine, Nautilus. Lauded ever since for predicting the advent of maritime travel under the waves, Verne was actually expanding upon the …

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