In 1980, who were the people who succeeded in seeing the falls in a barrel ? what reason was given by one of them for being so daring
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1901-1985
Over Niagara Falls in a barrel
Maybe take out an insurance policy beforehand?
by Alex Q. Arbuckle
c. 1901
Annie Edson Taylor poses with her cat and the barrel she rode over the falls.
IMAGE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Every minute, nearly four million cubic feet of water cascades over Niagara Falls’ 167-foot drop, giving the falls the greatest flow rate in the world of any waterfall over 50 meters high.
Such a formidable force of nature has naturally attracted a certain breed of person eager to conquer it.
1901
Anne Edson Taylor's barrel.
IMAGE: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
The first person to ride over the falls and live to tell the tale was not a famous daredevil or performer, but a widowed teacher named Annie Edson Taylor.
Taylor was struggling financially when she seized upon the idea of riding over the falls in a barrel to secure fame and fortune.
She used an oaken barrel with a crudely cushioned interior, which she tested by sending it over the falls with a cat stuffed inside. The traumatized feline survived the plunge, so on Oct. 24, 1901 — her 63rd birthday — Taylor climbed inside the barrel and was set adrift from a rowboat upstream.
Less than twenty minutes later, she was recovered from the bottom of the falls, bleeding from the head but otherwise uninjured.