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Bathyspheres and bathyscaphes, display - Auguste Piccard, Jacques Piccard, 1964

Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Date made: 1964-09-
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Measurements: 2" x 2"

Photographic display of key players and vehicles of early deep-sea exploration, including Auguste and Jacques Piccard, and a model of the FNRS bathyscaphe. (CC)


HEE-SC-08520

Related People

thumbnail Edgerton, Harold Eugene
American
1903-1990; electrical engineer; professor
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Piccard, Jacques
Belgium
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Piccard, Auguste Antoine
Switzerland
1884-1962
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