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Auguste Piccard with his family in front of his pressurized gondola, FNRS-1FNRS-1: Named after the Belgium foundation, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, or the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research. The foundation funded the Swiss engineer, Auguste Piccard's pressurized aluminum gondola for his hot air balloon and later his underwater submersible research[1]. Piccard had originally been inspired to dive underwater. His pressurized gondola was based off of his initial idea of a bathyscaph, Greek for deep ship, which he had thought about while a student at Zurich Polytechnic School[1]. Piccard credits his idea of a pressurized underwater submersible for him succeed at high altitudes with low pressures, using FNRS-1. That same idea helped him continue his work on pressurized vessels, leading him to a vehicle that could work at deep depths underwater, with very high pressures. His idea of an underwater bathyscaphe had been in his mind for both air and sea innovations[1].
Auguste Piccard gondolaFNRS-2: Kept the same name as it's predecessor. This bathyscaphe consisted of a gasoline filled float, 22 feet long and 10 feet wide, and oval shaped. Gasoline being less dense than water, would provide buoyancy for when the bathyscaphe needed to rise to the surface.[1] The ovular float was divided into six tanks for holding gasoline, having a combined total of 6,600 gallons.[1]
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