The exploits of Piccard and his son Jacques were featured in an American television commercial for Hennessy cognac
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Auguste Piccard
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
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science · Swiss physicist, inventor, and explorer · physicist · explorer · balloonist · Privatdozent · university teacher · inventor · also Auguste Piccard, Auguste Antoine Piccard, Piccard
Born 28 January 1884 · Died 24 March 1962 · Q210719
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1962· 1 entry
Died 1962-03-24.
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1954· 1 entry
It took a man safely down 4,176 m (13,701 ft)
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1948· 1 entry
Before being given to the French Navy in 1950
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1945· 1 entry
Completed the bubble-shaped cockpit that maintained normal air pressure for a person inside the capsule even as the water pressure outside increased to over 46 MPa (6,700 psi)
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1932).
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1930· 1 entry
An interest in ballooning and a curiosity about the upper atmosphere led him to design a spherical, pressurized aluminum gondola that would allow ascent to a great altitude without requiring a pressure suit
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1922· 1 entry
The same year his son Jacques Piccard was born
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-01-28.
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