Simon Lake, father of the modern submarine, credits Verne with giving him virtually a blueprint for his invention.
现代潜水艇之父西蒙·莱克认为凡尔纳给他的发明提供了蓝本。
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Simon Lake
For the writer Simon Lake, see the pseudonym of Charles L. Grant.
Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 – June 23, 1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.