Transcript of This inventor jumped off the Eiffel Tower
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0:00This is the moment an inventor jumped0:01off the Eiffel Tower. France Ryel was a0:03tailor who wanted to create a wearable0:05parachute for pilots. He became0:07determined to help. Tossing dummy after0:08dummy from his prison at home only to0:10hurdle towards the floor in a big crash.0:12Early prototypes failed miserably. But0:14Raichel became convinced that the0:15problem lay not in his invention but in0:17how he had tested it. He believed he0:19needed to test it from a greater height.0:21On February 4th, 1912, Raichel summoned0:24friends, journalists, and cameramen to0:25watch him leap from the Eiffel Tower's0:27first platform. Raichel wasn't using0:28dummies this time. He had so much faith0:30in his parachute suit that he was0:32testing it himself. After a 40-second0:34delay peering down below, Raichel0:36jumped, plummeting down to the frozen0:38grass. He died instantly. But perhaps0:41the most tragic aspect was that an0:42inventor named Gleb Catelnikov had0:44already invented an APSAC parachute a0:46year earlier. Raichel's death was all in0:49vain.
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