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Chapter 12. Everything through Electricity

           Ifslanted,theNautilus,accordingtothisinclination,andundertheinfluenceofthescrew,eithersinksdiagonallyorrisesdiagonallyasitsuitsme.AndevenifIwishtorisemorequicklytothesurface,Ishipthescrew,andthepressureofthewatercausestheNautilustoriseverticallylikeaballoonfilledwithhydrogen."

           "Bravo,Captain!Buthowcanthesteersmanfollowtherouteinthemiddleofthewaters?"

           "Thesteersmanisplacedinaglazedbox,thatisraisedaboutthehulloftheNautilus,andfurnishedwithlenses."

           "Aretheselensescapableofresistingsuchpressure?"

           "Perfectly.Glass,whichbreaksatablow,is,nevertheless,capableofofferingconsiderableresistance.Duringsomeexperimentsoffishingbyelectriclightin1864intheNorthernSeas,wesawplateslessthanathirdofaninchthickresistapressureofsixteenatmospheres.Now,theglassthatIuseisnotlessthanthirtytimesthicker."

           "Granted.But,afterall,inordertosee,thelightmustexceedthedarkness,andinthemidstofthedarknessinthewater,howcanyousee?"

           "Behindthesteersman’scageisplacedapowerfulelectricreflector,theraysfromwhichlightuptheseaforhalfamileinfront."

           "Ah!bravo,bravo,Captain!NowIcanaccountforthisphosphorescenceinthesupposednarwhalthatpuzzledusso.InowaskyouiftheboardingoftheNautilusandoftheScotia,thathasmadesuchanoise,hasbeentheresultofachancerencontre?"

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