Piccard Invents Bathyscaphe
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Technology, Inventions, Discovery, Exploration, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Earth Sciences, Explorers
- Curriculum: Italian History, 20th & 21st Century European History
- Geographical Location: Italy, Belgium
- Date: 1948-1960
Article abstract: Auguste Piccard invented a deep-sea submersible, called a bathyscaphe, that was capable of exploring the deepest trenches of the world’s oceans.
Early Exploration of the Deep Sea
The first human penetration of the deep ocean was made by William Beebe in 1934, when he descended 923 meters into the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. His diving chamber was a 1.5-meter steel ball that he named Bathysphere, from the Greek word bathys (deep) and the word sphere, for its shape. He found that a sphere resists pressure in all...
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