Piccard's Gondola
Gondola used by Professor Auguste Antoine Piccard (1884-1962) and Max Cosyns (1906-1998) for the second ascent into the Sratosphere on August 18, 1932, launched from Dubendorf in Switzerland - maximum height reached 16201m (53, 153 ft, 10 1/2 miles). Now on display at the Science Museum in London
Picture No
13539526
Media ID
45744142
Size
3151px x 4937px
(1.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1932
