PICCARD JACQUES: (1922-2008) Swiss Oceanographer and Engineer. Known for developing underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. Piccard and Don Walsh were the first to explore the deepest known part of the world´s ocean on board of the Challenger Deep. Signed and inscribed 4 x 6 postcard photograph, the image showing Jacques Piccard standing alongside his father Auguste Piccard on the deck of the bathyscaphe “Trieste”, in a full-length pose. The photograph was taken in September 1955 at Castellammare. Signed and inscribed in blue ink to the upper clear area of the image `…avec mon bon souvenir, Jacques Piccard´, dated in his hand in January 1964. Accompanied by the original envelope postmarked and stamped, also to the verso with Piccard´s ink stamp. VG

 

Auguste Antoine Piccard (1884-1962) Swiss Physicist and Inventor, well-known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights and for his invention of the first bathyscaphe