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 the year 1912, Franz Reichelt, known (inaccurately) as the "Flying Tailor", leaped from the Eiffel Tower to test a garment of his own invention: the "parachute coat." Previously, Reichelt had seen ...

In 1912, tailor Franz Reichelt climbed the Eiffel Tower wearing his homemade parachute suit. He wanted to prove the world ...

On February 4th 1912 Franz Reichelt attempted to test his latest invention — a parachute jacket — at the Eiffel Tower. He donned his apparatus and tentatively stepped to the edge of the viewing deck.

Franz Reichelt—AKA “The Flying Tailor”—was an Austrian-born tailor living in France during the early 1900s, and is credited with pioneering an entirely wearable parachute suit that looked less like a ...