Inertial Guidance of the “Nautilus”

When the U.S.S. Nautilus made her epoch-making journey under the Arctic icecap, there were no guiding stars or radio beams to give her position. Instead, the world’s first nuclear-powered sub marine relied upon a new means of finding latitude and longitude without external reference points. The means used was inertial guidance. With it the submarine made the journey without visual or electronic aid from earth or stars. To believers, this would be the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit.