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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

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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.

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