1894 Low-flying Cats (book p. 46)
Physiologist und inventor Étienne-Jules Marey captured a falling cat on film – and soon after dogs, rabbits, apes and a “small, plump guinea pig” – in order to find our how they manage to land paws first. Below the fascinating original footage.
So writes Reto Schneider in the web site for his book The Mad Science Book: 100 amazing experiments from the history of science, newly published in an English (UK) edition (which we described recently.)
(This project also brings to mind the much later falling cats experiment, documented in the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 4, no. 4. called “Does a Cat Always Land on Its Feet?“)
Click on the image below to watch the brief video:
