Word: piccards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope was in a free balloon to 9.6 miles, a height surpassed by Professor Piccard last year, and again last week. Last fortnight Professor Erich Regener of the Institute of Technology at Stuttgart despatched a free balloon from Stuttgart. Attached were a self-recording altimeter and electroscope. The balloon returned to earth, close to home. It had risen to 92.000 ft., nearly 17½ mi., about 7 mi. higher than Professor...
...frail, spindly, gentle Auguste Piccard, the stratosphere is not merely a remote layer of the atmosphere. It is an environment, a kingdom, a marvelous sea in which to swim; an Olympus from which to survey Earth's glories. Last week for the second time Professor Piccard penetrated the stratosphere in a balloon. His purpose, as last year, was to study the cosmic rays. But his Shelleyesque spirit was that of a voyager revisiting a world which only he had explored...
...with his own hands Professor Piccard installs the escape valve rope which leads from the bag through a mercury chamber into the gondola. It was failure of that valve to function on last year's flight that nearly cost the lives of the professor and Charles Kipfer, his assistant. Kipfer is there today helping, casting envious glances at youthful Max Cosyns, the new assistant. Kipfer's parents forbade him to make the second flight...
About 5 a. m. all is ready. Professor Piccard speaks briefly into a radio microphone. He salutes the crowd of 15.000. in which stands famed Dr. Hugo Eckener. He embraces his wife, his four eldest children. He follows Assistant Cosyns through the round manhole into the 7-ft. sphere. Cosyns immediately busies himself with his instruments, is not again seen by the crowd. But Professor Piccard thrusts his hairy head out the port, beckons to Mme Piccard. With a flourish he kisses her hand. He signals the ground-crew of 100 to cast off. Silently, easily the balloon rises. Professor...
...Last week unmanned balloons sent up 17½ mi. (a record) by Germany's Professor Erich Regener brought down evidence limiting Piccard's observation that the intensity of cosmic rays increases steadily with altitude. Above 39,000 ft. the intensity tends to become constant...