Word: piccards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). First of a two-part report on underwater exploration, The Bottom of the Sea is made fathomable with the help of Navy Scientists Robert Dietz, Jacques Piccard and Andreas Rechnitzer...
Southern Illinois University R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer of the geodesic dome. . D.F.A. Jean Piccard, engineer, pioneer stratospheric balloonist Sc.D...
...earth are largely unexplored. Last week the Navy, speeding its researches below the sea (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) brought to the U.S. the best tool for the purpose in the world. Into San Diego harbor aboard a freighter from Italy came the tubby, homely little bathyscaphe Trieste, launched by Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques in 1953. Last summer the Navy rented the craft for research dives off Capri, recently bought it from the Piccards for $200,000. A new one would have cost $1,500,000-and have been worth every cent...
Died. Edward J. Hill, 65, pioneer balloonist who served as technical adviser to Professor and Mrs. Jean Piccard when they made an ascent to the stratosphere from Dearborn, Mich. (1934); of cancer; in Detroit...
Several weeks ago August Piccard's Bathyscaphe again made headlines when it dropped its magnetically-held ballast eggs some two land one half miles beneath the Atlantic's waves and bobbed up for air, thus completing the deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most...