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Narciso Monturiol

Submarine

• Monturiol, a Catalonian, researched the first underwater navigation and in 1859 he drove the first fully operable submarine in the world, the "Ictineo".

• The Spanish inventor offered the US Confederacy his advanced submarine to smash the Federal blockade. The "Ictineo" was never purchased. Jules Verne apparently based the Nautilus on this, the world's most advanced vessel of the day.