Auguste Piccard, with his gangly frame, high forehead, and bespectacled gaze, doesn’t fit the classic mold of a hardy ...

Prof. Auguste Piccard, Belgian Physicist and his aide, Charles Kipfer, were reported, May 28, to have reached a height of 52,500 feet over the Tyrolean Alps.

Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that "his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world." ...

At 3:05 a.m. on Aug. 5, 1933, 50,000 spectators roared as the largest hot air balloon ever built lifted off from Soldier Field, glowing in the illumination of powerful floodlights. Tethered to the … ...

Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor's dog fortnight ago, had all the dog's teeth pulled. To the astonished ...

Ninety years ago, on 27 May 1931, Swiss physicist and balloonist Auguste Piccard made history by becoming - together with his co-pilot Paul Kipfer - one of the first two humans to enter the ...

The Century of Progress flew again a year later, now piloted by Auguste Piccard’s twin brother, Jean, and the first woman to the stratosphere, his wife, Jeanette.

The bathyscaph was a deep submergence vehicle, or DSV, invented by Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard. It was no ordinary submarine. In fact, Trieste had been further described as a deep-diving ...