shrine to the prophet of americana

From al-Jawhari to Reichelt, Lilienthal to Potter, death has long stalked pioneers of the field of Falling From Great Heights.

I like that as absurd as it is that’s a true sentence, that even though they quite frequently die from it, even though the famous hubris parable is literally “don’t push too far, or else your invention will fail and you will die by falling from a great height”, humanity still regularly gives rise to innovators of Falling From Great Heights, and we’re much better at it today because of them.