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...Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...Record. This unlikely craft was not built until after World War II. The first model was ready in 1948, when Pro fessor Piccard was 64. In it, he and his son Jacques descended 6,889 ft-under the Mediterranean, more than doubling the depth record (3,028 ft.) of William Beebe's cable-lowered bathysphere. On a later voyage in 1953, the elderly but still tough professor cruised the improved bathy scaphe* Trieste along the bottom off the west coast of Italy, more than...
After his Trieste reached the ultimate ocean depth, Professor Piccard did not rest on his triumphs. He was full of plans for improved submarine vessels to explore the deeps under better control, and as he charged around Lausanne, Switzerland, this year, he looked, at 78, hardly more scrawny than when he first climbed into the stratosphere 30 years before. Death had brushed close to him so many times that the wonderful professor seemed im mune. But last week the only man to break both depth and altitude records died at home of a heart attack...
Died. Auguste Piccard, 78, white-maned Swiss explorer-scientist who in the Jules Verne manner broke both the world altitude and depth records aboard his own inventions; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland (see SCIENCE...