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ITALIEN BALLONFAHRT AUGUSTE PICCARD 1932

Italienische Seeleute lesen im August 1932 in einer Zeitung ueber den erfolgreichen Stratosphaerenflug des Schweizer Wissenschaftlers Auguste Piccard und des belgischen Physikers Max Cosyns und deren Landung am Gardasee, Italien. Auf dem Titelbild der Zeitung ist Auguste Piccard neben seiner Gondel zu erkennen. Piccard und Cosyns stellten mit ueber 16'000 Metern einen neuen Hoehenrekord auf. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIV/Es) Italian mariners read in a newspaper about Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard's and a Belgian physicist successful record balloon flight to the stratosphere on August 18, 1932, and the landing near Lake Garda, Italy, pictured in August 1932. Piccard and the gondola can be seen on the title-page of the newspaper. Piccard reached an altitude of 16'200 m. Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) was a physicist, inventor and explorer. An interest in ballooning and a curiosity about the upper atmosphere led him to design and construct a spherical, pressurized aluminum gondola which would allow him to ascend to great altitude without requiring a pressure suit in 1930. Piccard and a Belgian engineer reached a record altitude of 15'785 m on May 27, 1931. During this flight, Piccard was able to gather substantial data on the stratosphere. In the mid-1930s, Piccard's interests shifted when he realized that a modification of some of his atmospheric balloon concepts would allow to descend into the deep ocean and he designed a small steel gondola to withstand great external pressure. Piccard and his son built the improved Bathyscaphe Trieste in 1953. (KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIV/Es)