He volunteered. The bathyscaph was a deep submergence vehicle, or DSV, invented by Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard. It was no ordinary submarine. In fact, Trieste had been further described as a ...

Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft. (more than 4½ miles) below the surface, the Trieste touched the greatest depth ever reached by man. Final target of Trieste and her crew is the Marianas Trench ...

Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor’s dog fortnight ago, had all the dog’s teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor ...

Auguste Antoine Piccard was born on Jan. 28, 1884, in Basel, Switzerland. He shared his birth with his twin brother Jean Felix Piccard, who also became a pioneering scientist and explorer in his ...