Nautilus (disambiguation)

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• The chambered nautilus is a cephalopod with a many-chambered, spiral shell.
• The paper nautilus is a type of octopus, also known as the "Argonaut."

Nautilus is a name given to some ships and submarines:

• Nautilus (1800 submarine), first practical submarine invented by Robert Fulton
• Nautilus (Verne), famous fictional submarine in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (and its many adaptations)
• HMS Nautilus, vessels of the British Royal Navy
• USS Nautilus, vessels of the United States Navy

See Ships named Nautilus for more.

Nautilus is also the name of:

• Nautilus (board game), a submarine-themed German-style board game
• Nautilus (file manager), the official file manager for the GNOME desktop
• Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, a public policy think-tank addressing security and sustainability issues
• Nautilus laser, a weapon system to intercept long-range missiles
• Nautilus Pompilius, A Mollusk or a Russian rock group
• Nautilus (secure telephone), an early secure telephony softphone
• Nautilus (space station module), an inflatable space habitation module
• Nautilus, Inc., founded by Arthur Jones, a producer of exercise equipment, including Nautilus, Bowflex, Schwinn Fitness and Stairmaster. May also refer to the Nautilus Institute, a research-based initiative of Nautilus, Inc.
• Nautilus, Japanese video game developer, formerly Sacnoth
• Nautilus Federation comprised of Nautilus UK and Nautilus NL, affiliated trade unions representing workers in the marine sector in the United Kingdom and Netherlands.

Nautilus may also be:

• a product line of speakers produced by Bowers & Wilkins (B&W)
• the Greater Argonaut, an octopus also known as the "Paper Nautilus"
• the codename for the VAX-8800 family of computer systems from Digital Equipment Corporation