Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
In 1931 he was the first man to reach the stratosphere... and realizes... how Earth... really is...
Sources:
The Hennessy Commercial, 2016: "The Piccards Advert"
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