Eccentrics who wanted something to prove
filed in Agimia Stuff on Dec.03, 2008
Franz Reichelt
I wanted to show the world that it is – genial inventor, who is not podvlasten laws of gravity.
To that end, he created a special suit, which was to help him safely survive falls from great heights.
In fact, he proved that the fall of the Eiffel Tower will lead to the death:)
“Parachute coat Reichelt’s,” shown above, as expected, operated in the same manner as a modern parachute. The final test of his invention was held in 1912, he sprygnul the Eiffel Tower in front of a crowd of people.
What he was trying to prove? The fact that he, a white man with a university educated, do not need the comfort of civilized life, so it. He did not want the fruits of civilization as such.
His method? Each of us, perhaps, there were thought to give up everything and start anew. Someone, as did Stas Kulesh, leaving to other countries. Who is it stops the fear that the new location World of Warcraft subscription will cease to operate. Christopher McCandless decided, well, to hell – threw the family, comfort and reached for Alaska. Almost without food and not without gear, along proklinaya «emptiness materialistic American society». To begin with, that balances parental donated money to some charitable foundation, and in 1990 went to the north. Sometimes stopped and a penny, sometimes eat grass, in one way or another, evil and zamerzshego it picked reyndzher Gellien. Christopher, calling Alex, asked him to drop the beginning of mountain trails used as a miner. Somewhere off our hero is thrown back in forties bus, and settled there.
After five months he died of starvation. A note found nearby, Alex again Chris and earnestly requested the assistance of those who will find it.
As he got to prove? What a corrupt capitalist society, which he so istovo accused of unrighteousness – was thus the only one that kept it afloat. «If this man had been at least a compass with a map, he would have survived». – Said reyndzher Gellien later.




December 22nd, 2009 on 3:37 pm
Interesting read. There is currently quite a lot of information around this subject around and about on the net and some are most defintely better than others. You have caught the detail here just right which makes for a refreshing change – thanks.