Auguste Piccard, a scientist from Switzerland, had experimented with buoyancy methods for his balloon flights - in fact, he broke the record for the highest altitude balloon flight in 1931-1932. Navy-operated bathyscaphe Trieste —with Swiss ocean engineer Jacques Piccard (who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, design the bathyscaphe) and U.S. naval officer Don Walsh aboard—made a record dive to 35,814 feet (10,916 metres) in Challenger Deep. Auguste Piccard i jeho dvojče Jean Felix se narodili ve švýcarské Basileji.Už jako dítě se zajímal o vědu. His father, Jules Piccard, was a professor of chemistry at the University of Basel. Auguste Piccard was a Swiss-Belgian physicist, inventor, and explorer, known for his record-breaking balloon flights to the stratosphere, as well as the invention for bathyscaphe to allow for deep ocean exploration. Studoval fyziku na ETH v Curychu, v roce 1910 získal doktorát a stal se asistentem na technice.V době první světové války sloužil zpočátku u letectva, později odešel do Curychu přednášet na vojenskou akademii. Unfortunately for him, flat-Earthers are claiming him as their own these days. Trieste—a research bathyscaphe—was the development of a concept first studied in 1937 by Swiss physicist and balloonist Auguste Piccard.World War II delayed his work on the deep-sea research submarine until 1945 when he worked with the French government on the development of the craft. The Explorers: Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. World War II abruptly terminated Piccard's work in Belgium on his deep-sea research submarine, a bathyscaphe, and he did not resume it until 1945. Trieste, a research bathyscaphe, was the development of a concept first studied in 1937 by the Swiss physicist and balloonist, Auguste Piccard. In 1952, Piccard was invited to Trieste, Italy, to commence construction. Piccard was born into a family of Swiss scholars. Životopisná data. launched by Auguste Piccard in . Trieste, bathyscaphe (q.v.) Auguste and his twin brother, Jean, enrolled together at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zürich, where they studied physics and chemistry, respectively. The next person to descend into that location did so more than… Oceanographer Jacques Piccard (1922-2008) worked with his father Auguste to design the Trieste.