The Inventor Of The Trampoline. He took a sheet of canvas and stretched it across a frame made of steel. At first he called the contraption the bouncing rig but a few years later he came up with a far better name trampoline from the spanish word for diving board.
In 1941 he set up a company with a friend calling it the griswold nissen trampoline and tumbling company. Nissen went home and began to work on a new invention. Instead the springs connected to the steel frame are the source of elasticity.
Instead the springs connected to the steel frame are the source of elasticity.
A gymnast himself he performed demonstrations around the world. Nissen was a gymnastics and diving athlete while griswold was a gymnastics team tumbler. The five golden rings in the twelve days of christmas were originally. Nissen worked hard to improve his creation.
