PDF Jump! Inventions Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era collection eBook Daniel Engber

Product details File Size 18394 KB Print Length 53 pages Publisher Original Stories (March 28, 2019) Publication Date March 28, 2019 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B07N67YVC3

Jump! Inventions Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era collection eBook Daniel Engber Reviews

• In an era where most people were pushing the boundary up, a few people decided to go down
  
  Daniel Engber gives us a quick, read-in-one-sitting tale talking about people in the early 1900s who experimented with parachutes and wing sailing.
  
  Engber notes that this was a time of scientific exploration, when most of the inventors were trying to figure out ways to go up - through planes, Zeppelins, and of course - skyscrapers.
  
  Yet a few people chose to go the other way.
  
  They jumped from the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower.
  
  And regardless of what happened after, they each claimed their small part of history.
  
  Engber tells the tale well, and gets to the point. This is a small time-investment, real payoff history book. It's great, and I recommend both the book and the series to everyone.
• This was the fascinating story of two early century daredevils, testing early forms of parachutes in the turn of the century. One brave German jumping from the Eiffel Tower in France and an American jumping from buildings and planes in the US. While certain facts are known, the author takes poetic license with some of the imagined recollections. An entertaining read. I read this book using immersion reading while listening to the audiobook. Amy McFadden's narration was brilliant.
• Of the 3 that are available from this Original Stories collection ...this one in my humble opinion is the best. It will hold your interest and you will learn something ... I even wished for more .. they are all very short and sweet. I enjoy the narrators voice, big time Amy McFadden ... has a great voice, really adds to the piece. must listen for sure!!
• This reads quickly — I zipped through it in a sitting — and yet it does a remarkable job of getting inside the minds of these parachute pioneers. The unearthed story of “The Human Fly” jumping from the Statue of Liberty feels like it could be a movie. You also get a vivid impression of the extreme dangers of early aviation. Engber writes “One got the sense that man had launched himself into the heavens and only then remembered that he couldn’t float.” The whole thing made my palms sweat.
• I can't believe I never heard about this chapter of history before. What an audacious moment in time. The photos of these old-timey parachuters are unbelievable. I can't wait to read more of these historic inventions stories.
• This could have been just an ordinary article on an often overlooked component of aviation history. For me, the author's prose was delicious, taking something potentially mundane and molding it into something touching and irresistibly human.
• A concise and well written account of the early days of flight and the invention of parachutes.
  
  A fast-paced book that doesn't add unnecessary text just fill up space.
  
  I recommend this book.
• There were many interesting facts about parachutes that I found out reading this book. It was a very exciting reading bad I would recommend it to any body. Enjoy !