Jacques Piccard, son of Professor Auguste Piccard, poses at a news conference in Washington, Jan. 8, 1958, holding a model of the Piccard bathyscaphe Trieste. Jacques Piccard piloted the ...

The Trieste was the creation of Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist who invented a pressurized aluminum gondola that set a balloon altitude record of 51,775 feet in 1931.

The Trieste is Professor Auguste Piccard’s newest “bathyscaphe.”* On the surface she looks vaguely like a ship, but she is really an underwater balloon designed to sail the depths of the sea ...

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 deep-diving ...

“ONR was generous to a fault [and] is underappreciated for this whole thing,” with the command buying the bathyscaph Trieste from Swiss inventor and scientist Auguste Piccard in 1957 and ...

In 1960, USN Capt. Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard took bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest point on Earth. At 91, Walsh recalls the record-setting mission.

Mme. Auguste Piccard put her foot down. Middle-aged professors, she declared, ... After his Trieste reached the ultimate ocean depth, Professor Piccard did not rest on his triumphs.

His grandfather, Auguste Piccard, ... This work culminated in the Trieste, in which Jacques and a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, Don Walsh, plumbed the depths of the Mariana Trench in 1960, ...

Auguste Piccard's great bathyscaphe, the Trieste, made several descents in the Atlantic Ocean, but its greatest moment came after it was acquired and redesigned by the U.S. Navy.