Ship Electrification: DC Versus AC and the Rise of Digital Power [Technology Leaders]

The energy source on-board Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus submarine was a battery using Bunsen cells, and history attests that small electric boats powered by electric batteries were already gently plying the river Thames in England when Verne penned his famous 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It is safe to say that dc power made history on land as well as at sea before ac power.