His uncle, the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, developed both the pressurized balloon gondola and the bathyscaphe, which enabled human beings to climb to the top of the atmosphere and dive to the ...

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 ...

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 neighbor ...

The divers descended to 10,916 metres in nine hours. Auguste Piccard was known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Waiting for Jacques' return were his father, Auguste Piccard, who had helped design the craft and had himself been the first man to fly a manned balloon kilometres up into the stratosphere ...