Franz Reichelt and his Parachute Suit - Bad Ideas
Bad Ideas Podcast
English - July 26, 2019 16:54 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHistory Education badideas failures flops history worstideasinhistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today we talk about Franz Reichelt. a man who tried his hardest to make a parachute suit for aviators in 1912. To prove the value of his invention, he dove from the Eiffel Tower and crashed into the frozen dirt below.
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