The man that built the FNRS-1 balloon died in what year?
1962
FNRS-1
The FNRS-1 was a balloon, built by Auguste Piccard, that set a world altitude record.
 It was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, which funded the balloon.
Auguste Piccard
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, "FNRS-2", with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
H-class blimp
The "H" class blimp was an observation airship built for the U.S. Navy in the early 1920s.
 The original "H" Class design of 1919 was for a twin engined airship of approximately 80,000 cubic feet volume.
 Commander Lewis Maxfield (who was to have commanded the ZR-2, better known as the "R38", and died in its crash) suggested that a small airship which could be used either as a tethered kite balloon, or be towed by a ship until releasing its cable, would be able to scout on its own.
 The concept was an airship similar to the later Army Motorized Kite Balloons. Billing Aquadrome
Billing Aquadrome is a leisure park in Great Billing, in the eastern district of Northampton, England.
 Facilities within the 235-acre (1 km²) park, which was built around various mature gravel pits, include a caravan site, marina and funfair.
 It was also home to a variety of shows throughout the year, which were often car or motorsport related, such as the world's largest annual Land Rover show and the American Car Show, they no longer host these now.
 It also hosts the Northampton Balloon Festival. Louis Vasquez
Pierre Luis Vasquez (October 3, 1798 – September 5, 1868) was a mountain man and trader.
 He was born and raised at St. Louis, Missouri.
 Pierre Luis Vasquez was the son of Benito Vasquez and Marie-Julie Papin (daughter of Pierre Papin & Catherine Guichard.
 Benito was born in Galicia, Spain in 1738 son of Francisco Vasquez and Marie de La Ponte.
 Many historians write that Pierre Luis was a Mexican-American but he was of French and Spanish (European) descent.
 In 1823, he became a fur man, receiving his first license to trade with the Pawnee.
 By the early 1830s he had shifted his operations to the mountains, a popular and active mountain man and trader.
 Pierre Luis was nicknamed "Old Vaskiss" by other Mountain men.
 Vasquez became a partner of Andrew Sublette, perhaps in 1834, returned to St. Louis in 1835, and went back to trade on the South Platte that winter and built Fort Vasquez that year after obtaining a trading license in St. Louis, Missouri, from William Clark, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
 He traveled back and forth between the mountains and St. Louis almost yearly, his reputation growing.
 Unable to turn a profit, they sold Fort Vasquez to Lock and Randolph in 1840 who subsequently went bankrupt and abandoned the structures in 1842.
 Due to the bankruptcy, Luis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette could not collect the sum owed to them for the sale.
 Vasquez then became associated with Jim Bridger.
 By 1843 they had built Fort Bridger on Blacks Fork of the Green River, which became as much an emigrant station as trading post.
 At St. Louis in 1846 Vasquez married a widow, Mrs. Narcissa Land Ashcraft and took his new family, her son and daughter, to Fort Bridger in Wyoming.
 Vasquez opened a store at Salt Lake City in 1855.
 He and Bridger sold their fort in 1858, but Vasquez already had retired to Missouri.
 He died at his Westport home, and was buried at St. Mary's Church cemetery. FNRS-2
The FNRS-2 was the first bathyscaphe.
 It was created by Auguste Piccard.
 Work started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II.
 The deep-diving submarine was finished in 1948.
 The bathyscaphe was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), the funding organization for the venture.
 FNRS also funded the FNRS-1 which was a balloon that set a world altitude record, also built by Piccard.
 The FNRS-2 set world diving records, besting those of the bathyspheres, as no unwieldy cable was required for diving.
 It was in turn bested by a more refined version of itself, the bathyscaphe "Trieste". Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson (b. 1952 - ) is a writer who has been on the staff of "The New Yorker" since 1980.
 According to "The Philadelphia Inquirer" he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American (20th and early 21st century) "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee."
 He is the author of ten books: "Midnights," (1982), "Moonshine," (1985), "Big Sugar," (1989), "The Riverkeeper," (1981), "A Violent Act, (1993), "My Mentor," (2002), "Mr. Apology," (2003), "The Happiest Man in the World," (2007), the latter about Poppa Neutrino, the only man to cross the Atlantic in a raft made of trash, and "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger," (2009).
 His most recent book is "The Ice Balloon," (2012), the account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.
 Before Wilkinson was a writer, he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, which is the subject of "Midnights," and before that he was a rock and roll musician, playing in a number of bands, including one in Berkeley, California with Tony Garnier, Bob Dylan's longtime bass player and bandleader.
 Wilkinson began writing when he was twenty-four, showing work to William Maxwell, his father's friend, who in addition to being a novelist and short-story writer, had for forty years been an editor of fiction at The New Yorker.
 They worked together closely for years.
 Maxwell died in July 2000.
 "My Mentor" describes their friendship.
 Wilkinson's honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a Guggenheim fellowship.
 He is married, has a son, and lives in New York City.
 He is also the brother of Leland Wilkinson. Smelt Monument
The Smelt Monument is a monument in Castletown, Isle of Man built to commemorate the life of Cornelius Smelt, the first royally appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, and who died in 1832.
 Work on the monument began in 1836, being finished the following year, and constructed to a design by John Welch at a cost of £180.
 It is a column of the Grecian Doric Order built from locally sourced stone, the work being undertaken by John Thomas. William Wagner House
The Wagner Homestead was built  1855 by William Wagner, who came to Miami with his Creole wife Everline.
 Wagner, a U.S. Army veteran, had joined the army in 1846, fought in the Mexican War under General Winfield Scott until he was wounded in the Battle of Cerro Gordo, and sent to Charleston S.C. to recuperate.
 When Wagner's former military unit was sent to reopen Fort Dallas in 1855, he came to the Miami area and decided to move to South Florida.
 Wagner died in 1901 on his homestead.
 He was one of the area's first permanent residents and was actively involved in local political and community affairs.
 The Wagner home reflects the early days of settlement along the Miami River during the nineteenth century and is the only known house in Miami which remains from this period.
 It is a rare example of vernacular wood frame architecture and is unique in its use of Balloon frame construction. Manhattan Beach (Denver)
Manhattan Beach was a former amusement park in Denver, USA, (1881-1914).
 It was built near Denver on the shore of Sloan's Lake in Edgewater, Colorado, and was the first amusement park created west of the Mississippi River.
 Open to the public for the first time on 27 June 1881, it had a roller coaster, a dance hall, a Ferris wheel, boating attractions, hot air balloon rides, wrestling bears, contortionists, aerial acts (including a human cannonball), a man who walked on ceilings, and exhibits displaying more than 40 species of animals, but its primary draw was Roger the Elephant (real name: Rajah), who was a popular children's ride.
 Visitors reached the park by streetcar, boats, and wagons.