The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

use Bunsens contrivance instead of
 Ruhmkorff' the latter would not have | been powerful enough. The electricity
 passes forward, where 1t works by
 electro magnets of great size a system of levers and cogwheels that transmit
 the movement to the shaft of the screw.
 The screw, which is 19 feet in diameter, performs about 120 revolutions a min
 ute. I get a speed of 50 miles an hour
 out of the Nautilus when I push her to
 the utmost"
 Seated on a divan in the library Cap tain Memo discoursed further concern ing his wonderful boat. The Nau-
 tilus," he sad. lis shaped very like a
 cigar. It is 2s2 feet long and 2s feet beam at its widest part It is com
 posed of two hulls, one inside the other,
 joined together by T-shaped irons,
 which render it very strong. Indeed, | owing to this cellular construction it
 has the resistance of a rock-as if it
 were solid. The hull is composed of
 steel plates of the best manufacture. He then explained that when he wanted. to seek the depths of the sea all he
 had to do was to let the sea water into
 some tanks, thus rendering the Nau- titus too heavy to float, and she sank. When he wanted to come up again pow
 erful electric pumps forced out the wa ter. and up the vessel rose to the sur face. To steer the boat to starboard or port an ordinary rudder was used but
 there were also attached to the sides
 of the vessel fins or planes secured at the center of Notation and so arranged that they could be inclined up or down.
 When these planes were parallel to the axis of the boat the Nautilus moved
 along horizontally, but if they slanted,
 the Nautilus, according to the direction
 in which they were inclined. moved up or down diagonally. Powerful levers
 worked by electricity controlled these fins.
 The helmsman was stationed in little coming tower which rose slightly above the platform on the back of the Nautilus at it's fore end. Thick glass, but glass of great clearness, was let into the front
 of the coming tower. and above 1t was q powerful electric light, burning in vaccuo. In a watertight refecting apparatus. This was controllable by the helmsman so that he could turn 1t in every direction. In
 reservoirs fresh air was stored under high pressure, which could be liberated to
 renew the atmosphere of the vessel If it
 should be desirable to stay for any length of time beneath the water. "I am de- signer, builder. owner and captain and engineer of this vessel" said Memo. Tt
 was built and the different parts were made in different countries and assembled
 upon a small island in a remote sea. When the work of construction was over | and the ship launched fire destroyed all
 the marks left upon the island by our | labor" {f' | Such was the strange craft upon which the learned Professor Aronnax found him self a prisoner. It was wonderful voy- age they made sometimes on the surface
 of the waters, sometimes speeding along far below the waves. No matter how the tempests might rage on the surface of
 the ocean the Nautilus could always fin
 quiet beneath the storm-tossed sea. All
 the wonders of the marine world were
 unfolded before the greedy eyes of the
 professor, who began soon really to enjoy
 his captivity and became so engrossefl in the study of the marine flora and
 fauna that he had no desire for an inn
 mediate return to the solid earth. The
 vessel sank below the surface and started
 to follow the Japan current in It's north
 eastern sweep. That night in the main
 saloon Ned Land. Consell and~Sthe pro- lessor had conference. Ned was impa- tient of hi. i,,,prisopuant ana dubiouc Of the future. 'we cannot guess the out