JAN 4, 1912: Reckless inventor Franz Reichelt was filmed jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower after testing the world’s first parachute suit on this day in 1912. The 33-year-old Austrian-born ...
In 1912, tailor Franz Reichelt climbed the Eiffel Tower wearing his homemade parachute suit. He wanted to prove the world wrong - to show that courage and invention could defy gravity. But when he ...
Doch Reichelt stürzte ab. Sein Todesfall gilt als der erste, der von einer Kamera gefilmt wurde. Der aus dem Elsass stammende Autor Étienne Kern hat daraus ein bemerkenswert feines Romandebüt namens ...
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