Word: teisserenc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventure. But the record of eight stratosphere flights by man makes it seem unlikely. Whether undertaken for science or as record-breaking stunts they were for the most part either comedies or tragedies. The stratosphere itself was discovered from the ground. In 1896 a French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure...
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