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Title: Jump!

Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era

Author: Daniel Engber

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Format: mp3

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Release date: 03-28-19

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 178 ratings

Genres: Innovations


Publisher's Summary: It was early February 1912, and Franz Reichelt, a Paris tailor, and Rodman Law, a self-described “professional jackass” from New York, were poised, respectively, on the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, ready to deploy an experimental parachute. In bat wings and bundled linen, they were almost certain their contraptions would work. Here is the tale of their inspirations and their pluck - and what happened next.