The second envelope, the keel, twenty inches high and ten thick, weighs alone sixty-two tons. The first is not two inches and a half thick, and weighs 394 tons. These two hulls are composed of steel plates, whose density is from Its sides cannot yield it coheres spontaneously, and not by the closeness of the rivets and the homogeneity of its construction, due to the perfect union of its materials, enables it to defy the roughest seas. ![]() ![]() Indeed owing to this cellular arrangement resists like a block, as if it were solid. The Nautilus is composed of two hulls, on inside, the other outside, joined by T-shaped irons, which render it very strong. I ought not, therefore, to have exceeded that weight, constructing it on the afore said dimensions. Captain Nemo (a pseudonym from the Latin nemo, no one) is a signature character from writer Jules Verne, one of the fathers of science-fiction. When I made plans for this submarine vessel, I meant that nine-tenths should be submerged: consequently, it ought to only displace nine-tenths of its bulk, that is to say, only to weigh that number of tons. Its area measures 6032 feet and its contents about 1500 cubic yards that is to say, when completely immersed it displaces 50,000 feet of the water, or weighs 1500 tons. These two dimensions enable you to obtain, by a simple calculation the surface and cubic contents of the Nautilus. It is not quite built like your long voyage steamers, but its lines are sufficiently long, and its curves prolonged enough, to allow the water to slide of easily, and oppose no obstacle to its passage. ![]() The length of this cylinder from stem to stern, is exactly 232 feet, and its maximum breadth is twenty-six feet. It is very like a cigar in shape, a shape adopted in London for several constructions of the same sort. It is an elongated cylinder with conical ends. Aronnax, are the several dimensions of this boat you are in.
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