To Explore Sea Depths 1963

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Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

LV. & SV. Model of the new under water craft designed by scientist Jacques Piccard called mesoscaphe. SCU. Showing the conning tower of the mesoscaphe. SV. The designer Jacques Piccard, son of Professor Piccard, a famous balloonist and deep sea explorer, at the drawing...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
54815
Sort Number:
63/079
Time in/Out:
01:51:50:00 / 01:53:14:00
Canister:
63/79
Film ID:
1774.38
Issue Date:
30/09/1963

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