Chapter 12
Everything through Electricity"SIR," CAPTAIN NEMO SAID, showing me the instruments hanging on
the walls of his stateroom, "these are the devices needed to
navigate the Nautilus. Here, as in the lounge, I always have them
before my eyes, and they indicate my position and exact heading in
the midst of the ocean. You're familiar with some of them, such as
the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus;
the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and
forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates
the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose
mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the
compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's
altitude and tells me my latitu
