Franz Reichelt—AKA “The Flying Tailor”—was an Austrian-born tailor residing in France through the early 1900s, and is credited with pioneering a wholly wearable parachute swimsuit that regarded much less like a parachute and extra like a… properly, a bedsheet held up with wires. I imply, simply look at this thing. It’s not likely a tool that screams “sturdy,” however that didn’t cease Reichelt from testing it out in an inaugural soar off the Eiffel Tower in early February of 1912.

In reality, he was so assured in that soar that he truly known as the native press over to movie his invention in motion. Needless to say, it didn’t go as deliberate: Reichelt plummeted from the tower, swimsuit and all, and crushed his cranium, backbone, and some different main bones when he hit the bottom, dying nearly immediately. The whole occasion was captured on movie and, for those who’re not faint of coronary heart, you’ll be able to see the whole debacle for your self here.