ZUM4870343: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere” is launched in Italy: Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere”, the vessel in which he hopes to explore the depths of the Tyrrhenean Sea, and set up a record dive of 13,000-ft., was launched at Castellamare dio Stabia, Italy. The vessel consists of two main parts - a cigar-shaped structure of watertight compartments which will house the special liquid which will be used for surfacing, and a lower part which is the actual sphere from which observations will be made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870381: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes first descent in his new” Bathysphere”: Professor Piccard the famous Swiss Belgian physicist was accompanied by his son Jacques when he newly designed bathysphere” Trieste”, at Castellamara di Stabia, near Naples. He hopes to reach a depth of 13,000 feet during experiments near the Islands of Ponza to study and photograph the sea bed. During these tests three dives of 40 feet, lasting a few minutes only were made / Bridgeman Images
ETE4870759: World War II (1939-1945) (WWII): X-ray of an American soldier injured before returning to the USA in a military hospital near Prestwick Airport in Great Britain, Autumn 1944: an injured soldier is X-ray to find out if he can withstand the journey back to the USA on board a C54 Skymaster aircraft - Photography, Great Britain , 1944 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4874328: Aug. 26, 1953 - Raising the” Kronprins Frederick”: Efforts to raise the sunken Danish liner,” Kronprins Frederick”, which capaised and sunk after being swept by fire at Harwich, in April, are being made today. Salvage men have started this morning to lift her. Picture Shows: Preparations for the lift began at 6.30 a.m. this morning- and this was the scene at 11.30 a.m. showing the ship at a 30 degrees list. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4874483: Aug. 28, 1953 - Shark Hunt - By Camera Hunting sharks with a camera holds no terrors for Dr.Hans Hassy, the underwater explorer - or his 24-year old Viennese wife, Lotte. Dr. HASS, a 34-year old Swiss, will sail from London in his yacht Xarifa on an expedition to explore the depths of the Caribbean. He, his wife and sight scientists will spend seven months there. Keystone Photo Shows: - Dr. Hans Hassy, and his pretty wife, Lotte, seen with a harpon aboard their yacht. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4874810: Sep. 03, 1953 - East-agents at the Judge: By trucks the east-agents are brought to the colleague at Coburg. They had been arrested on Wednesday out of the inter-zone-train from Erfurt (Sowjet-zone) to Munich. At present eight senors judge in a lower court at Coburg examines the election trouble some persons. Then they are brought to the near prisons. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4869530: Aug. 08, 1953 - Explosion of an ammonia tank-car at Darmstadt: Last Friday morning an ammonia car exploded on the territory of the chemical firm Rohm and Haas; the reasonsare not cleared yet. In some seconds the whole area was wrapped in thick ammonia clowds. The laborers had to the hospital with Serio poisoning. The Work to fight the fire and to save the labourors was very difficult, because the wind always changed and the corade gas too. / Bridgeman Images
JEB4863473: View of the objects (ceramic and tin pots, bottles, crucifix, articule model, skins, plaster statuettes, apples and onions) found in the still lifes of Cezanne, preserved in the workshop of the Lauves or workshop of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), construction 1901-1902, hill of the Lauves in Aix en Provence (Bouches du Rhone) / Bridgeman Images