human cannonball
Human cannonball Stephanie Smith, human cannonball at the Royal Melbourne Show , 2005 The human cannonball act is a performance in which a person who acts as the "cannonball" is ejected from a specially designed "cannon". The human cannonball lands on a horizontal net or inflated bag placed at the landing point, as predicted by physics . Outdoor performances may aim at a body of water. History Rossa Matilda Richter ("Zazel") with her cannon in 1877. The first human cannonball, launched in 1877 at the Royal Aquarium in London , was a 14-year-old girl called "Zazel", whose real name was Rossa Matilda Richter . [1] ‹See TfM› [ failed verification ] She was launched by a spring-style cannon invented by Canadian William Leonard Hunt ("The Great Farini"). She later toured with the P.T. Barnum Circus . Farini's cannon used rubber springs to launch a person from the cannon, limiting the distance they could be launched. Richter&