This was a race for the stratosphere actually launched by an unlikely character, Auguste Piccard. He was a Swiss national, pro­fessor of physics at the University of Brussels, and a research spe ...

The bathyscaph, designed by Belgian scientist Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), was not suspended from a surface vessel but rather attached to a free-floating tank. (The tank was filled with petroleum ...

Balloons, of course, can simply rise to the occasion. Auguste Piccard and an assistant took a gas-filled balloon to 15,781 meters in 1931. Their gondola was pressurized, and they were the first ...

Paid and presented by Syensqo. In 1927, Auguste Piccard ignited global fascination with aviation when he soared into the stratosphere in a hydrogen balloon, proving that science and exploration go ...