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 ...

On Feb. 22, 1911, Gaston Hervieu climbed the Eiffel Tower to test a new parachute for pilots. He checked the wind, took a nervous breath and began the test. His silk parachute filled with air then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Segway owner, Jim Heselden, who died after apparently driving one of the company's vehicles of the cliff of his English estate, did not actually invent his firm's signature product. That honor goes to ...