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    Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon...
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    Auguste Piccard (physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (aeronaut, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic...
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    Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His grandfather Auguste Piccard was a balloonist and undersea explorer, and his father Jacques Piccard was...
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    The Auguste Piccard mesoscaphe, also known simply as the Mésoscaphe, was a crewed underwater submarine designed in 1964 by Jacques Piccard, son of Auguste...
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    The bathyscaphe was designed by Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, the father of pilot Jacques Piccard. It was built in Italy and first launched in 1953...
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  • include: Jules Piccard, a chemist and professor of chemistry Auguste Piccard, a physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut Jacques Piccard, a hydronaut...
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  • Auguste Piccard (physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (aeronaut, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic...
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    mid-1960s. Auguste Piccard (physicist, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (psychiatrist, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic...
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  • Piccard is a French surname, a variant form of Picard. Members of the Swiss Piccard family Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), physicist, balloonist, hydronaut...
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  • Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-11. "Auguste Piccard, Explorer, Is Dead. Auguste Piccard Is Dead at 78. Stratosphere and Sea Explorer". The...
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    by replacing gasoline with water, which is denser.[citation needed] Auguste Piccard, inventor of the first bathyscaphe, composed the name bathyscaphe using...
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    tracks and was open to the atmosphere. The first tourist submarine was Auguste Piccard, which went into service in 1964 at Expo64. By 1997 there were 45 tourist...
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    1931-05-27: 15.781 km (51,770 ft); Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer in a hydrogen balloon. 1932: 16.201 km (53,150 ft) -Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns in a hydrogen...
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    worlds such as the pressurised balloon of Auguste Piccard and the Bathyscaphe which permitted Jacques Piccard to reach the deepest point of the world's...
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  • modeled on inventor Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), Hergé stated in an interview with Numa Sadoul: "Calculus is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real chap was...
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    reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on 23 January 1960, with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board. Iron shot was used for ballast, with gasoline for buoyancy. The...
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    Lausanne) was a Swiss chemist. He was the father of twins Auguste Piccard (1884–1962) and Jean Felix Piccard (1884–1963), both renowned balloonists. He studied...
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    Accompanied by her husband, Jean—a member of the Piccard family of balloonists and the twin brother of Auguste Piccard—she reached a height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km)...
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    & Gurgl. Obergurgl became famous in 1931, when the Swiss explorer Auguste Piccard was forced to land on the nearby Großer Gurgler Ferner glacier during...
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    Bathysphere's dives also served as an inspiration for Jacques Piccard, the son of the balloonist Auguste Piccard, to perform his own record-setting descent in 1960...
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    James Chapin 1953 - Donald B. MacMillan 1954 - Lord John Hunt 1954 – Auguste Piccard 1957 - Laurence McKinley Gould 1959 - Sir Vivian Fuchs for the Commonwealth...
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    American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist (d. 1960) January 28 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962) January 29 – Rickard...
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    Le Prieur John Lethbridge Ernest William Moir Joseph Salim Peress Auguste Piccard Joe Savoie Willard Franklyn Searle Gordon Smith Augustus Siebe Pierre-Marie...
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    Le Prieur John Lethbridge Ernest William Moir Joseph Salim Peress Auguste Piccard Joe Savoie Willard Franklyn Searle Gordon Smith Augustus Siebe Pierre-Marie...
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  • was constructed in Monthey. Giovanola built several submarines: the Auguste Piccard, the Ben Franklin and the F.-A. Forel. In the 1980s Giovanola entered...
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    Retrieved 17 September 2016. Dekker, David L. "1860. Benoit Rouquayrol – Auguste Denayrouze: Part 2". www.divinghelmet.nl. Archived from the original on...
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    photographer, geographer and author Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), Swiss scientist, physicist and explorer. Piccard started off in 1931 near Gersthofen...
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    The FNRS-1 was a balloon, built by Auguste Piccard, that set a world altitude record. It was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique...
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    Le Prieur John Lethbridge Ernest William Moir Joseph Salim Peress Auguste Piccard Joe Savoie Willard Franklyn Searle Gordon Smith Augustus Siebe Pierre-Marie...
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    Le Prieur John Lethbridge Ernest William Moir Joseph Salim Peress Auguste Piccard Joe Savoie Willard Franklyn Searle Gordon Smith Augustus Siebe Pierre-Marie...
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