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Posted on 08/18/2014 7:49:47 AM PDT by Covenantor
Today in History:
1932 First Stratosphere Measurement
The Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard and his assistant, Max Cosyns, climbed to an altitude of 16,203 metres with the help of a pressurised cabin attached to a balloon. During the flight through the stratosphere they gathered information about the strength of the cosmic beams and photographed the regions they flew over. Temperature measurements showed outside temperatures to a minimum of minus 60° Celsius. From 1947 Piccard, who was inspired by the Jules Vernes novels, started deep-sea investigations. In 1953 he reached a depth of 3,150 metres with his son in the deep sea submersible vessel, the "Trieste.
Piccard's pressurized craft lead the way. In 1969 the USA first landed men on the moon, a mere 37 years later.
Piccards bathyscape "Trieste" later procceded in the opposite direction exploring the deepest depths of the ocean.
Any kin to Jean-Luc?.........................;^)
16 203 meter = 53 159.448 819 feet
Piccard’s ‘gondola’ is on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and has been since I was a kid.
Too bad it is in a war zone.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
20 years later you had supersonic aircraft flying higher.
Our advances today are at a snails pace with the 20th century.
I only caught that show a few times but I suspect that the character named Piccard was deliberately chosen as a reference to Auguste. All that “to go where no man has gone before”.
My grams born near the end of the nineteenth century lived long enough to witness workable aircraft, the Graf Zepplins, transatlantic flight, V-2 rockets,supersonic aircraft, space rocket sand men in orbit. Didn’t get to see the moon landing video, but it all amazed her. I loved hearing her talk about it. A great granddad was killed by a bomb dropped by a German dirigible in WWI.
And at 128,000 feet, Felix Baugarten jumped from more than twice the altitude of Piccard’s ballon.
A giant leap for technology........................
You gotta admit Baugarten’s jump was one of the most effin’ amazing things of this century and the past one as well.
Jules Verne would have approved of both Piccard’s adventures.
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