ivovynckier:Truth and fiction!The mad scientist Cuthbert Calculus in Hergé’s Tintin cartoons was bas
ivovynckier:Truth and fiction!The mad scientist Cuthbert Calculus in Hergé’s Tintin cartoons was based on Auguste Piccard, professor of physics at the University of Brussels.Piccard invented the bathyscaphe - it took him 3,150 meter below the surface of the sea -, and developed a pressurized cabin that, suspended under a balloon, brought him to the record altitude of 23,000 meter. He thus became the first man to reach the upper atmosphere. -- source link