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...Belgian ship Scaldis was due to sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
...steel sphere 6½ feet in outside diameter with thick walls to resist the enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe can cruise slowly by means of two propellers driven by a small electric...
Automobile tire sales were ballooning. A severe winter slump had persuaded tiremakers that they were up against a postwar decline,* and they had gone after customers with talk of new styles and promises of greater comfort. Firestone brought out a low-pressure "super balloon tire", U.S. Rubber an "Innacush" (industrial solid tire), and Goodrich a tubeless tire. But buyers hardly noticed the new offerings; they just needed tires all of a sudden, and standard models were plenty good enough...
...illustration of what he called the "Cyclone Look," Dior showed an evening gown that had nearly a score of stiffened folds projected backward, making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...
...years before World War I, fierce-eyed, mustachioed "Professor" Ivy Baldwin was as famous as many a king. He was a tiny man (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.), but he had a fine sense of balance and a vast contempt for death. He toured the world making balloon ascensions and parachute jumps. He dived into nets from incredible heights. He walked high wires with the ease and insouciance...