INVENTOR

Franz Reichelt

1879 - 1912

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Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft in mid-air. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Reichelt has received more than 1,222,568 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Franz Reichelt is the 96th most popular inventor (down from 85th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 94th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Inventor.

Franz Reichelt was a tailor who attempted to test his invention of a parachute by jumping off the Eiffel Tower in 1912. He died on impact.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Franz Reichelt ranks 96 out of 426. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Henri Coandă, Étienne-Jules Marey, André-Jacques Garnerin, Daniel Swarovski, and Elisha Otis. After him are Alphonse Bertillon, Johann Maria Farina, Leo Fender, Momofuku Ando, Robert Noyce, and Louis Le Prince.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Franz Reichelt ranks 37. Before him are Fritz Haarmann, Knud Rasmussen, Hans Lammers, Léon Jouhaux, Chen Duxiu, and Pál Teleki. After him are Karl Bühler, Friedrich Adler, E. M. Forster, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, and Frederick Griffith. Among people deceased in 1912, Franz Reichelt ranks 23. Before him are Benjamin Guggenheim, William McMaster Murdoch, Johann Martin Schleyer, James Paul Moody, Nettie Stevens, and George Darwin. After him are Nogi Maresuke, Osborne Reynolds, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Bolesław Prus, John Jacob Astor IV, and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Reichelt ranks 123 out of 1,200. Before him are Alfred Kubin (1877), Anne of Bohemia (1366), Zdeněk Miler (1921), Daniel Swarovski (1862), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), and Agnes of Bohemia (1211). After him are Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915), Ivan Lendl (1960), Anton Reicha (1770), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), Adalbert Stifter (1805), and Rudolf Slánský (1901).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Franz Reichelt ranks 3. Before him are Alois Senefelder (1771), and Daniel Swarovski (1862). After him are Josef Ressel (1793), Prokop Diviš (1698), and František Křižík (1847).

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