WEBVTT - When inventions kill! 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:13.440 dot Com. Hey you, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.280 Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan, there's Jerry Rowland. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.400 And this is Stuff you Should Know. I don't know 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.279 what addition this is should be a pretty interesting and 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.280 entertaining how about that? Uh? This this is the interrupting 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.000 Chuck from watching the Kabinaugh hearing addition. Yeah, really, man, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.000 talk about historic huh Oh. I was glued to it 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.400 and then like I gotta go to do my job. Sorry. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.760 For some reason, I feel guilty, like I'm responsible for that. No, no, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.440 it's not your fault. Thanks for letting off the hook. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.479 We gotta make the donuts. M hmm. Man, don't get 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.080 I'm recording it. So I'll just go back right after this. Okay, cool, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.360 Well we'll talk really fast. I'll go back to seething 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.480 rage right after this. You'll just be like, uh, you'll 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.160 be like, no one tell me what happens? Oh goodness, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.320 Uh all right, let's do it death by invention. Yeah, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.880 I guess this would be the horribly ironic twist edition 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.160 of Stuff you Should Know. Yeah, and um, you know 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.640 we are talking up people who died by their own 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.800 hand in a way, it's in and it's really sad. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.399 I mean, all these people are are pursuing their passions 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.119 for the most part, Uh, and to die because you 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.760 are a creative, inventive, passionate person, except maybe in the 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:36.440 case of Lacy. Uh, it's really sad. It is I think, um, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.839 to die in any way, at any time, for any 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:45.720 reason is is unnatural. It's just wrong, you know. Yeah, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.440 they listed out a couple before the official list of five. Yeah, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.120 there's like a whole I mean, we could do the 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.600 same show like every white like once a quarter. Maybe 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.880 maybe we will chuck five more people. Yeah, we'll see. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.000 We'll see how this one goes about that. Did you 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.840 want to touch on in a couple of those other 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.280 people though? Yeah, I mean, um, Henry wind Stanley is 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.000 definitely a kind of a famous one. He built a 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.760 very famous lighthouse, Eddie Stone Lighthouse back in and I 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.040 think that was the first iteration of it. I think 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.640 there's been four total, and we talked about it on 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.360 the Lighthouse episode. Yeah, I think this was the first 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.160 one on rock right, and this is like out out 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.880 there on on some rocks in the ocean or in 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.799 the channel, one of the two, or the sea. It's 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.360 out in the water. Yeah. A candle light, old school 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:42.160 candlelight lighthouse, very romantic lighthouse, very romantic, invented by, like 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.640 you said, Mr Henry wind Stanley, great name, and speaking 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.880 of great. Five years later there was a great storm 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.119 and this lighthouse actually that he built, collapsed on him 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.040 and killed him while he was trying to short up. Yeah, him, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.800 he and five other people, and they were never found. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.440 That's just sad. I guess the sweet, the sweet, the 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.000 sweet swept him as the sweet does sweet swell sweet 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.480 swells by the sweet war. Yeah, it's really that's it's 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.359 such a tragedy. What about Marie Curry who died at 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.800 sixty six from radiation poisoning, which technically she didn't invent 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.520 radium and polonium, she discovered them, but I mean her work. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.560 She won Nobel prizes for it. Um. Yeah, like the 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.200 dangers of working with us, I mean always dangerous, but 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:40.720 especially back then and then again physicist Harry uh Daglion, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.360 I'm gonna say, Dallian, Dallian, I like Daglion, Okay, Dallian, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.800 That's what I'm going with but hey man, it's up 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.760 for grabs, so silent g silence, h yeah, kind of. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.360 I mean there's a little bit of a guttural in there. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:00.680 Why do you hate letters? Right? Those are superfluous right there. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.960 So Harry daly In was another scientists who he was 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.720 working on the Manhattan Project on the Demon core, the 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.840 core of the plutonium bomb, and he died by his 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.560 own hand as well. He was stacking carbide bricks, tungsten 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:22.240 carbide around the core and dropped one, which I can't imagine, Like, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.680 what a frightening moment that would be. Yeah, even more so, chuck. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.000 He he had a monitor he was trying to see 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.919 how many tungsten bricks it took to make the plutonium 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.080 go critical, which is like once it goes critical, you've 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.680 got a nuclear explosion on your hands. So he's just 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.279 sitting there messing around with this. He's got a monitor 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.040 showing him and the bonitor said, hey man, that last 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.880 brick will make this go go critical. Um. It was 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.080 a monitor from the seventies, so it said things like 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.440 hey man, and uh so he knew, like, I gotta 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.560 get that brick away, and he went to go like 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.080 pull it back away from the stack, but in going 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.039 to pull it away, he accidentally knocked it onto the core, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.880 so he had to go into the stack after it 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.719 to get it away from the core to make sure 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.120 that the thing didn't blow up, and he did, but 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:14.200 he supposedly suffered tremendously from um radiation poisoning. Yeah, I 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.039 mean he died within a month, So that's that's pretty tragic. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.800 And you know, he it sounds like he was a 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.840 hero because if that thing would have exploded, uh, many many, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.599 many lives lost. Yeah, he's definitely honored as a hero. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.440 He also was not going to follow the rules apparently 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.560 because he was in there the lab by himself, which 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.680 was against protocol. I think he went back to work 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.679 after dinner and was sitting there working on a nuclear 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.440 pile by himself that he was trying to see where 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.040 the threshold was for getting it critical. Jeez, this is 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.279 a little crazy. So these examples to serve as a 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.480 set up though to the official five. Uh, and we're 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.560 gonna start with lee cy L. I s I I 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.240 got no love for Lecy. No. No, this is not 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.400 one of the ones where just a great creative following 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.120 their passion. I don't know. Maybe he was passionate about 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.920 harming others and people and court intrigue for sure. Yeah, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.360 that's a good point. But we're going back to ancient 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:18.360 China here roughly to b C E. Is that what 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:23.279 we're saying now, and China this time was making the 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:29.200 conversion from just a big mess of of warring states 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.920 into what would be, uh eventually be the Keen dynasty. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.279 Is that right? Chin Chin? We've been corrected by that 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.960 officially too. I looked it up because I was like, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.080 I'm not I'm not following for this again here I 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.000 did it. I think it was you last time. It 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.880 definitely was so that, Yeah, the Chin dynasty finally being 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.880 ruled by one dynasty. So it was it was a 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.360 big change for China. It was um. But the way 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.320 that they assembled um all of these kind of like 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:04.560 facts fractious states into a single empire was through this 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.200 practice called legalism, which is a political doctrine that basically said, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:15.760 it basically assumes the worst about people, that they're selfish 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.240 and dumb, and that the best way to make a 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.760 state out of your citizens is by exploiting them and 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.280 lying to them and passing a law for everything and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.640 then brutally enforcing it. Yeah, and kind of the government 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:35.720 just fully uh fully ruling with an iron fists citizens. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.640 It's like proto fascism, Like the point of your citizen 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.520 read is not to serve them, It's for your citizen 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.400 read to kind of give all their power and work 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.400 and attention to the state to the emperor. Yeah. So 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.920 there's this um sort of an outlier as far as 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.440 uh where this guy started out Leacy. He became very, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.080 very prominent with the Chin dynasty, but he was he 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.240 was not born into it. He was a commoner and 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.360 he was a clerk at a at a local government office, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.280 and he really worked his way up through the system 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.360 pretty yeah, all the way up to prime minister. So 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:19.280 local government clerk to prime minister. And I mean this 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.680 guy makes like Machiavelli and the Medici's look like cream puffs. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:30.240 Who yeah, so Medici's queen puffs. Yeah, I am compared 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.240 to Lacy, Yes, and not not just Lisie. So like 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.720 the emperor of the Chin dynasty, the founder of basically 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.640 China was an emperor named Shi Wong d I'm pretty 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.200 sure that's tell you say it. I'm almost equally sure 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.720 that I've gotten it wrong. But he was the King 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.800 of Chin, the first Emperor of Chin, and Um he 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.040 was pretty brutal, but he he found good company with 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.040 Lesi in his brutality and the way that he saw 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.440 citizens and people. And then also the king's eunuch, who 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.080 was basically tied for second place with le cy Um. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.160 He was the king's official spokesman. His name was Choo Chow, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.040 and the three of them together just ruled quite brutally. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.920 It was you know, you you bribe people and if 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.240 they didn't take bribes, you killed them. You tricked neighboring 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.320 states into accepting your rule. Book burning was huge, and 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.360 this is what lecy is most commonly remembered for is 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.560 instituting a policy of burning most books, especially history books, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.920 in an effort to kind of form a um, a 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.520 single way of thinking for all Chinese to to fall 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.720 in line with. And the way that you start that 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.280 is to get rid of everything that's been written that 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.280 doesn't fall into that line of thinking. So he instituted 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.120 like a an empire wide book burning drive. Yeah, I 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.240 think like the only thing that he said it was okay, 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.080 or books on medicine, books on growing things in agriculture 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.240 and then divination, which I think I can't believe we 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.480 haven't done a podcast on that at this point. Is 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.400 that water witching? Yeah? I think so, right, Yeah, I 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.480 think that's probably also like reading frog guts and tea 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.080 leaves and stuff to see the future. Oh well, that 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.640 that part totally makes sense, right, because you got to 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.000 know how it's gonna come, and had Lesi been at 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.720 all capable of divination, he would have seen that his 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.240 end was coming horribly ironically and it was going to 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.640 be very painful for him. Yeah, so they like, speaking 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.760 of Machiavelli, they they definitely lead the path in do 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.040 anything necessary to get what you want. And he said, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.319 you know what, I'm pretty I'm pretty into torture as 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.440 a means of getting what I want. And I've invented 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.320 a pretty full proof way to uh ensure that someone 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.280 is dead or gives us what we want and imagine 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.520 ended up dead anyway. It was called the Five Pains, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.040 and it's basically cutting things off of the body one 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.360 at a time until you get to five, which is 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.240 the body. You cut the nose off first, then you 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.439 cut off a hand, then you cut off a foot, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:14.680 then you cut off the penis or the the vagina castration, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.800 and finally you just cut in half. Your body has 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.120 cut in half. That come done with you. Yeah, the 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:26.000 five pains really undersells it. It really does so, because 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.480 the five pains for me are traffic, right, traffic, This 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.280 is the five unbearable social media None of them involved 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.640 cutting off hands and feet, a nose, man, can you 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.920 imagine losing your nose? That's first too. So um Licy 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.600 is credited in some circles with inventing that. Others say 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.160 it's not entirely clear. But um Shi wangd the emperor 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:56.200 when he died, he died abroad suddenly, and Choo Chow 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.439 and Licy decided to conceal it because the king said, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.960 my eldest son is my heir. I want him to 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.520 take over after I die. So Lesy and joo Chow 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.800 got rid of that decree and forged a new decree 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.240 to the oldest son, who had been exiled for opposing 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.440 that book burning idea. Yeah, that that was the reason 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.920 it was a problems because he was no friend of Licy, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.560 right exactly. So lesy U and Joo Chow drafted a 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.280 new decree from the king and it said son, kill yourself, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.520 and they sent it to him and the son killed himself. Yeah, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.480 so they had now they had consolidated their power, and 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:43.040 they named an infant son of she she Wangdi to 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.079 be the new ruler. They decided that wasn't any good, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.600 so they killed the infant and then they turned on 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.080 each other, and Joo Chow got the upper hand and said, licy, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.840 I have some terrible news for you. You're about to 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.920 face the five pains yourself. Yeah. I mean, that's the 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.280 thing is when you're when you've got to psychotic creeps 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.240 working together, eventually one of them is going to turn 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.640 on the other. That's how it always goes. Let's hope 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.439 that never happens to us, because where a parapsychotic creeks 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.000 working together? You know, Um, what is the king's eunuch? 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.440 The so the eunuch was castrated? Unich is? But like, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.439 so the king's eunuch is? Why did they castrate them 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.600 just to render them subjugated or whatever or trustworthy like 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.640 now I can trust you around my wife or whatever. Sure, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.840 that's what why people were looking assized. But in this 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.880 case he was like the spokesperson for the emperor. He 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:47.040 was like the highest the imagine like the press secretary 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.840 and the chief of staff combined. Right, that's kind of 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.800 what he was. But no penis no right. So he 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.839 uh so jow Chow turns on Leasy and and has 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.320 him executed through the five five pains his invention supposedly 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.280 about which I looked into that five pains thing. It 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.000 seems to come under the tradition of ling Chi, which 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:15.000 is called slow slicing, which is as bad as it sounds, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.040 and I think it's way worse than the five pains. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.640 It's there can be twenty four cuts or a thousand cuts. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.240 They call it um and they actually last used it 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.640 in nineteen o five. And there's a horrible picture of 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.840 the man who was executed in nineteen o five by this, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.680 like being executed through this the slow slicing method. He 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.160 just cut all up and bloody. Yeah, it's pretty pretty rough. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.880 It's pretty awful to see. Um. But they did it 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.840 up until nineteen o five. Remember the days when we 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.080 would send each other those awful pictures. Yeah, I think 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.160 we got to a certain point where we're like, se 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.400 seen too much. You find it on your own, More 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.640 power to you. Yeah, you've become a father, you know, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.160 and I'm a father in my own way. I feel like, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.360 you know, we have to protect ourselves from that. Oh boy. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.360 All right, well let's go take a break. I'm gonna 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.840 go watch it. Four minutes of the Cabin all hearing? Okay, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:38.360 and we'll come right back right after this. All right, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:45.600 we're back. Now, let's talk about parachuting Franz right cult. Yeah, 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.120 I know a little bit about this one because, uh 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.160 I did something back when we were doing videos. I 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.000 can't remember exactly what it was, but one of our 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.280 half hearted attempts at a video series. I think it 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.200 was a blog post, was it. Yeah? Those didn't work either. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.560 It was like in that same series of the Baby 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.120 Cage that like hung out over. Yeah, that's right. Remember 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.920 how what a relief it was when we were finally told, hey, guys, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.560 why don't you just podcast because that's a job. That 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.520 was nice. Wasn't that great? Yeah? You don't have to 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.280 dance like a monkey on YouTube? Yeah, we're blog like 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.320 it's people missed that stuff though, It's crazy, I know, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.520 but we enjoyed this. Yeah, I love podcasting, Chuck, all right, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.840 So it's a late seventeen hundreds, we're in France and 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.240 there's a series of men that are intent on jumping 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:48.600 off of things and testing out this new thing called 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.560 a parachute. Yeah, and so in the fourteen seventies, Da 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.240 Vinci is credited with designing the first parachute just on paper. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.400 I've seen pictures and apparently somebody did. Somebody built it, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.800 and they're like, yeah, it works. Of course it's da Vinci. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.600 But something and I couldn't figure out what it was. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.479 But something in the eighteenth century and nineteenth century just 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.000 caused like parachute fever in France, and there was like 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.000 you really, you can't really attribute it to anybody else 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.360 but the French that the development or the early development 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.200 of the parachute. There was just a bunch of frenchmen 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.239 working on the parachute at about the same time. And 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.000 maybe it was the advent of hot air balloons, which 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.760 was another huge thing in France, and they were like, well, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.400 I'm up here, and how am I going to get 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.400 down there if my balloon starts to crash? So it's 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.399 possible that was it. But there were a lot of 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.480 French guys jumping off of like buildings in the late 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.760 eighteenth in early nineteenth century trying out parachutes. Yes, I 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.720 mean over a ten or fifteen year period. There was 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.439 a guy named Joseph mont gulf Yer, great name that 0:17:53.520 --> 0:18:02.920 means golf mountain. Oh nice, Louis Sebastian Uh Lenoman, It's okay, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:04.760 I just dropped the last couple of letters on anything 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.400 French and the ally do it. And then a third 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:14.120 guy named Bourges he just he's like share right. All 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.879 of them were kind of making parachutes. There was another 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.959 one to um, Jean Pierre Blanchard, who actually realized that 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.360 silk is pretty good for getting out of a hot 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.280 air balloon as a parachute. He had to ditch once 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.760 back in. So there are a bunch of them. And 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.840 Lenormand is the guy who actually coined the term parachute, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.879 which para in the Greek means against and shoot in 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.720 French means fall, so it's against falling. The parachute is 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.240 yeah in a way, so they they The parachute was 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.960 invented by a number of people, but there was one 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.440 specific parachute kind of like a wing suit, but it 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.760 differed from a wingsuit in that it didn't work at all, 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.360 and it was invented typically by a guy named Franz Reichelt, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.880 and I would love to hear you say his name properly, France. 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.880 That's pretty good. Yeah. That that's an interesting case too, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.200 because this was a full like close to a hundred 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.520 years after people were successfully using parachutes. Yeah, so it 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.600 wasn't like he was like, oh man, these things have 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.040 not worked yet and I really need to figure out 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:27.840 a better way. Um. So I think Franz was I 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.640 don't think he had a death wish, but I think 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.440 he was shooting for the stars. He was. He was 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.720 an eccentric. This is what I've gathered. Yeah, he was 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.719 an eccentric. He was a very talented tailor. But this 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.400 article points out, I think quite astutely as as part 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.960 part of being an inventor is knowing where to draw 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.560 inspiration from among other inventions and inventors. And this guy 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:56.679 apparently just went through to um first principles like Elon 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.880 Musk does, where it's like, um, oh, I can buy 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.560 batteries on the market for this. Let me instead figure 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.080 out what you need to make a battery, and I'll 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.000 go by those parts and make it for way cheaper 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.600 Franz Reicheld seemed to have the same impression about his 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.679 flying suit. He just kind of made it up, not 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.479 based on anything else. He just did it himself and 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.199 he was quite proud of it. And he took it 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.640 to the Arrow Club of France and said check this out, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.000 and they said, do not use that ever. Ever, the 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.960 thing is not going to do anything, and he said, oh, 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.679 nuts to you. And he started doing trials from his 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.359 fifth floor apartment window with a dummy and it didn't work, 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.159 but he wasn't dissuaded by any of that. Yeah, the 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.520 only thing I can figure out is that um, because 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.600 again I don't think he had a death wish. I 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.879 think he must have thought. The only thing I can 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.359 figure is he must have thought a dummy like it 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.840 needs to be a real rigid human that can move 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.760 their body, and a dummy is just not gonna cut it. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.800 So I need to try this thing out because I 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.920 think it's gonna work. It was a time in nineteens 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.480 well when apparently you could go to the Eiffel Tower 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.280 and just tell the cops, Hey, I'm gonna throw a 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.199 dummy um off of the Eiffel Tower to trap my 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:15.000 flying suit and they said go ahead. Uh so he 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.400 went up there. But UM, I don't think he changed 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.919 his mind. I think by all accounts it was he 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.840 intended fully to do this himself the whole time. And 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:28.200 the suit like you have um been hinting at it 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.240 didn't do anything. It didn't And actually I should have 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.280 sent you this one to British Pete or Pete, I'm 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.400 not quite sure what what the the old newsreel service. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.520 They were there and and there is a haunting video 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.919 of him. There is close up like it's not far away, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.000 but close up, like on the ledge of the first 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.959 platform of the Eiffel Tower nine ft or almost fifty 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:58.600 eight meters high, just like waiting, waiting, and then he 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.480 jumps and he just goes straight down like a sack 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.520 of potatoes and dies immediately hundred ninety feet very very tragic. Yeah, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.640 And on the film that you see the police measuring 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.040 the depth of the impression he made in the ground 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.760 when he fell. When he hit the ground, it's really 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.560 sad to see, like you're like, don't do it, don't 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.640 do it, and you but you know obviously that he's 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.679 going to do it, and he he died. Well, it 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.240 was a time too where people were trying to figure 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.520 all this stuff out, so they're all kind of crazy. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.000 I mean, I know we haven't done one on the 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.280 Right Brothers yet, but I mean you've seen all the 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.600 crazy flying machines that people were trying to come up with. 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.399 It was. It was a time of the spirit of 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.600 adventure was in the air, and everyone there was probably like, man, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:45.240 check out this guy. He's going to fly off the 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:49.600 Eiffel Tower. Yeah. I mean they thought that or they 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:51.520 all had a lot of blood lust and we're coming 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.160 out to see this guy die. You know, I don't 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.720 think he had a death wish either, Chuck, And he 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.640 actually applied for a permit. That's sweet. So I mean, 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:03.679 why would you apply for a permit if you had 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:05.760 a pretty good idea you were going to die. I 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:07.760 think he thought very much that they was going to 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:09.560 work and he was going to live, and he didn't 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:11.159 want to get in trouble, so he applied for a 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.320 permit first. That's a good point. How about moving on? 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:22.200 Yes number three? Max Valierre would say it, Valier, I 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.240 don't like I don't like extra letters, man, I need 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:29.680 to take French. Um. Sure, Although this guy wasn't even French, 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:32.480 was he. No, he was born Get this, he was 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:36.240 born in Austria Hungary and the town of Bozen. But 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:41.000 Austria Hungary broke up. It was very sad and um 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:45.080 that town is now known as Bozano, Italy. But the 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:48.040 guy's last name is Vollier. So that was the Italian 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:50.760 or what we would consider Italian if he was. If 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:54.360 he had been born after the Austro Hungarian Empire collapsed, 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:57.680 he would have been Italian. But he was Austro Hungarian. Well, yeah, 0:23:57.680 --> 0:23:59.719 but you know what I mean. I mean, it's not 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:02.240 like said all you Austro Hungarians get out of here. 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.120 I don't know, I really don't know. I would guess 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:07.200 because it was an empire, there was probably a lot 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:10.399 of movement around the empire. So who knows what his 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:15.160 his his ethnicity or pedigree was in his family. Well, 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:17.439 we know one thing for sure is that he was 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:22.359