The man in the short video is shown wearing some sort of an oversized suit.
He plummets straight down to the ground below.
Franz Reichelt wearing his parachute suit.
One of the earliest sketches of a rigid-frame parachute can be found in Leonardo da Vincis notebooks.
It wasnt until the late 18th century, when a Frenchman named Louis-Sebastien Lenormand made thefirst successful parachute jump.
It was Lenormand who coined the word parachute from the Italian prefixparameaning “against and the French wordchutefor fall.
The worlds first parachute jump by Louis-Sebastien Lenormand in 1783.
In a successful demonstration in 1911, Broadwick threw a dummy from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Franz Reichelt also began working on wearable parachutes.
His early designs used 6 square meters of cloth and weighed an impractical 70 kg.
Every experiments he conducted with dummies from the courtyard of his building at rue Gaillon failed.
But his tests were still unsuccessful and his dummies invariably fell heavily to earth.
Reichelt himself broke his leg when he attempted a jump.
Despite his repeated failures, Reichelt refused to see any flaw in his design.
Franz Reichelt showing his parachute suit before the jump.
Reichelt agreed, but that was never his plan.
Reichelt also claimed that the suit weighed as little as 9 kg.
However, when Reichelt presented himself wearing a suit, it was adequately clear that his intention was different.
Despite being surrounded by a crowd of police officers and reporters, few took the initiative to stop him.
They reasoned that Reichelt would have ample opportunities to prove his invention, but Reichelt wouldnt listen.
Eventually, Reichelt began climbing the stairs.
On the way, he paused, turned back to the crowd and shouted cheerfully, See you soon.
Reichelts parachute barely opened.
He dropped like a brick entangled in his own suit.
Reichelt was dead before the first onlookers had rushed to the mangled mass of flesh, bones and canvas.
His eyes were reportedly wide open and dilated with terror.
Each app was carefully scrutinized, and rejected if the applicant was found attempting to do anything suspicious.
One inventor wanted to test his helicopter parachute and was denied.
The grim tale has been repeated countless number of times, but not in the most flattering way.
Soon after the incident, one journalist suggested that only half the term mad genius applied to Reichelt.
Lately, Reichelt has earned the nickname of the Flying Tailor.
