to Descend Chicago, Aug. 5.
An unsuccessful attempt was, made today by, Lieutenant Settle, of the United States Navy, to set up a new record for an ascent into the stratosphere.
Lieutenant Settle stated that while 5,000 feet up the valve got stuck and that in spite of the ballast thou oat the balloon sank, scientific purpose of the flight was to obtain new data concerning the disputed cosmic ray. Instruments to check the opposing theories of Dr. Arthur H. Compton and Dr. Robert A. Milligan, " both Nobel Prize winners in. physics, were carried in the gondola.
'Sponsors of the flight were the Century, of Progress Exposition, 'Chicago's © second' world's fair, the "Chicago Daily News" and' the National Broadcasting Ca.
The Piceard balloon is larger by
lever before constructed. Tt has a twenty por cent, than any. balloon Jgas capacity of 600,000 ft. as ce pared with 600,000 cubic ft. for the balloon in which the ascent from Zurich was made last. year. The Zorich balloon was larger than that in which the 1931 flight was made Augsburg, Germany.
'The officer's intention was to rise to an altitude of 15 miles and thus Ireak the record of 108 miles set up last August by Auguste Piccard, the Belgian'
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