. . . likely will be "Does ROBERT FULTON do justice to the inspiration for Captain Knee-Moe?" Bob crafted the world's first working submarine in 1800 by attaching copper sheeting to a large quantity of Perrier bottles. He christened his sub as the Nautilus. Longer than five or six football fields laid out end-to-end, Fulton's Nautilus was held back only by labor unrest at the bottling plant. In 1870, biographer Jules Verne concluded decades of research into Bob's life and times by releasing volume one on his exploits, subtitled as TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Being quite allergic to palindromes such as "Bob," Verne faithfully reported the True Facts of Bob's Paris years but gave his Nautilus builder the pseudonym "Knee-Moe." However, this briefer treatment of ROBERT FULTON omits his years in France pioneering submarines, and instead focuses on how he invented steamboat surface vessels in America a few years later.