Today Jess tells us the story of Franz Reichelt, an Austrian man with the dream of making people safe. in the early 1900s, the rapidly growing hobby of airplane use demanded a safer parachute to protect pilots. Franz thought he was just the dressmaker for the job. The only problem was he didn’t have a plane or a way to really test his parachutes well. But necessity is the mother of invention! Check out this Wile E. Coyote-esque tale set in London just over 100 years ago!
Check out Franz’s Cool Suit!
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04/15/20 • 34 min
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