![]() ![]() How can we not think of Trieste, the Free Territory, as an ideal center for expanding a culture and an ideology for peace? Placed on the borders of two such different worlds, it could be the epicenter of a major undertaking.” de Henriquez, have often spoken to me about your plans to create a better and more peaceful world, to make the best use of the much good will on earth. In one of these letters, dated June 16, 1948, Jacques Piccard writes : Indeed, the historian and war memorabilia collector saw the city an effective symbol for a future of peace, as it was becoming the center where a concert of nations were engaging in scientific research for the benefit of humanity, of which the “TRIESTE” would become a symbol. Its mission is to show the instruments of war (both the hardware and the propaganda, as well as written memoirs, documents and war footage), in an effort to educate future generations on the importance using human ingenuity for peacful ends instead of conflict.Įnrico Halupca, a local historian, writes in his book, “Il Trieste” (2019) the bathyscaphe would not have been built in the Adriatic city without the fruitful exchange of letters between Piccard and de Henriquez. De Henriquez’s collection,containing thousands of items from the time of Austrian rule to the First and Second World Wars, and other conflicts on this soil, is now housed in the museum that carries his name, The Diego de Henriquez Museum of War for Peace. Piccard enlisted the help of local War Historian and Collector Diego de Henriquez (1909-1974), who lived through and witnessed first-hand many of the conflicts that played out in this region. He was then contacted by a local ship builder to consult on the bathyscape project alongside his father. Jacques Piccard, Auguste’s son, moved to Trieste to work as an economist after completing his degree in Geneva. So how did the TRIESTE come to be built in Trieste? After it’s launch, the TRIESTE was used for several years in the Mediterranean by the French Navy and was then sold to the United States Navy in 1958 for $250,000 (equivalent to $2.2 million today). ![]() The design of the TRIESTE was based on Picard’s first bathyscaphe, the FNRS-2. ![]()
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