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Auguste Piccard, 1961 Piccard balloon bathyscaphe Trieste
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Auguste Piccard, 1961
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Additional Reading

French works include Pierre de Latil and Jean Rivoire, Le Professeur Auguste Piccard (1962), and A la recherche du monde marin (1954; Man and the Underwater World, 1956), which deals with the explorations undertaken by Auguste and Jacques Piccard. English translations of Auguste Piccard’s writings are Earth, Sky and Sea and In Balloon and Bathyscaphe (both 1956).

Pierre de Latil

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First paragraph modernization. Apr 02, 2024
Anniversary information added. Mar 20, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - Auguste Piccard. Jul 25, 2022
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Biography of Auguste Piccard. Jun 06, 2016
Changed "Bernard Piccard" to "Bertrand Piccard." Aug 16, 2013
Added new Web site: History.com - Biography of Piccard, Auguste. Apr 16, 2008
Bibliography revised. Apr 06, 2007
Article revised and updated. Apr 06, 2007
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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