Professor Calculus
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Professor Cuthbert Calculus is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor and half-deaf physici
Auguste Piccard in 1932
Calculus demonstrates the benefit of his Fruit d'or cooking oil to Nestor the butler
Auguste Piccard
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Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first per
Professor Calculus
…martial art savate, although a demonstration in Flight 714 to Sydney shows him to be more than a bit rusty. Calculus is partly modeled on inventor Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), Hergé stated in an interview with Numa Sadoul: "Calculus is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real chap was very tall. He had an interminable…
Piccard in 1933
Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer, wearing improvised crash helmets, September 1930
The FNRS III at the Tour Royale in Toulon, France
Auguste Piccard in 1910