The Archive · 1937

NEW STRATOSPHERE

ATTEMPT DUE

Prof, Jean Piccard to Make Another Attempt Rochester Minn. July 16.

Prof. Jean Piccard, noted explorer of the stratosphere. preparing to make this week-end in a to-day was an ascent this balloon of an entirely new type. His new flight equipment includes eighty small rubber balloons to lift his steel gondola, The primary object of the first flight, which he hopes to make either on Saturday or Sunday, will be t test the efficiency of the new equipment,—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account