单词 | bathyscaphe |
释义 | bathyscaphen. The name given by the Swiss scientist Professor Auguste Piccard to his deep-sea diving vessel; also applied gen. to other similar vessels. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel diving-engine1601 diving-bella1684 submarine boat1713 bellc1715 diving-bladder1753 boat1802 diving-boat1802 bell-vessel1816 submarine1828 nautilus1875 submersible1900 bathysphere1930 bathyscaphe1947 mesoscaphe1955 1947 Time 18 Aug. 38/1 Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the ‘bathyscaphe’..his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a..‘gas bag’ full of lightweight gasoline. 1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World ix. 87 The elderly scientific extremist [Auguste Piccard] had designed the Bathyscaphe (‘Depth-craft’) a decade before and, after the delay of a world war, it had been built by a brilliant Belgian physicist, Dr. Max Cosyns. 1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World ix. 89 The Bathyscaphe was to navigate twenty-five times as deep as conventional submarines. 1958 New Scientist 17 Apr. 31/3 The bathyscaph is an untethered and self-contained craft..capable of diving to the deep sea bed and rising again by its own devices. 1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 7/4 (caption) The bathyscaphe Trieste in which..United States scientists are to explore the ocean depths of the Pacific. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1947 |
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