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The electricity generated here makes its way to the stern, where electromagnets of huge size activate a special system of levers and gears that transmit movement to the propeller's shaft.
If they slant, the Nautilus follows the angle of that slant and, under its propeller's thrust, either sinks on a diagonal as steep as it suits me, or rises on that diagonal.
And similarly, if I want to return more swiftly to the surface, I throw the propeller in gear, and the water's pressure makes the Nautilus rise vertically, as an air balloon inflated with hydrogen lifts swiftly into the skies."
Its keel was forged by Creusot in France, its propeller shaft by Pen & Co. in London, the sheet-iron plates for its hull by Laird's in Liverpool, its propeller by Scott's in Glasgow.
The propeller was instantly set in motion, and the log gave our speed as twenty miles per hour.
Like a cetacean's tail, its propeller churned the waves slowly.
Its propeller churned the waves with lazy majesty.
The propeller was going so fast I could neither follow nor count its revolutions.
Its electric equipment had been turned off, and the motionless propeller let it ride with the waves.
But this mystery would inevitably be cleared up, and soon, because Captain Nemo gave orders to increase speed; at once the engine stepped up its drive power, setting the propeller in swifter rotation.
On January 25, the ocean being completely deserted, the Nautilus spent the day on the surface, churning the waves with its powerful propeller and making them spurt to great heights.
He pressed a metal button and at once the propeller slowed down significantly.
Our engines tried to offer resistance by churning the waves with propeller in reverse, but the Nautilus went with the torrent, as swift as an arrow.
The Nautilus, driven downward by its propeller and slanting fins, descended to the lowest strata of this sea.
So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved-in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.
Meanwhile, briskly unconcerned, the Nautilus ran at full propeller through the midst of these ruins.
Only the propeller's vibrations disturbed the deep silence reigning on board.
At this point the propeller's vibrations slowed down appreciably, then they died out altogether.
Accordingly, not wanting to entangle his propeller in this weed-choked mass, Captain Nemo stayed at a depth some meters below the surface of the waves.
Then the propeller was brought to its maximum speed, and its four blades churned the waves with indescribable violence.
With the thrust of its propeller curbed by the slant of its fins, the Nautilus stood still.
Its fins set vertically, its propeller thrown in gear at the captain's signal, the Nautilus rose with lightning speed, shooting upward like an air balloon into the sky.
Soon I felt the beats of our propeller getting faster, and we picked up speed.
But by forcing the pace of its propeller, the Nautilus carried them off, dragged them under, or brought them back to the upper level of the waters, untroubled by their enormous weight or their powerful grip.
Its propeller churned the waves and it headed due north at a speed of fifteen miles per hour.
Swept along by its propeller, the Nautilus was traveling through a sheath of flashing light.
Meanwhile the Nautilus accelerated its backward movement, and running with propeller in reverse, it swept us along at great speed.
Brought to full speed, the propeller made the sheet-iron hull tremble down to its rivets, and we sped northward.
Then, driven by its powerful propeller, it attacked this ice field from below like a fearsome battering ram.
The blades of its propeller weren't churning the waves.
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