George Nissen, who as a teenage gymnast was inspired to invent the modern trampoline after watching trapeze artists bounce off a safety net, has died. He was 96.

In 1930, the 16-year-old George Nissen watched in awe as trapeze artists performed their daring stunts at a travelling circus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Seeing them dismount at the end of their ...

George Peter Nissen was born in Blairstown, Iowa, on Feb. 3, 1914, one of four children of Franklin and Catherine Jensen Nissen. His father owned a dry goods store. The family later moved to Cedar ...

One by one, the trapeze artists topped off their routines by dropping from their high-swinging bars into the net stretched below, then rebounding into somersaults - to the roar of the crowd at the ...

How the Trampoline Came to Be Inspired by circus performers, George Nissen created the bouncing ‘tumbling device’ that still captures imaginations 75 years later ...

This photo shows the view George Nissen had of his new showroom in 1961. ... Time Machine: George Nissen, trampoline inventor. Sep. 12, 2016 7:00 am, Updated: Mar. 6, 2025 2:27 pm.

The Suns Gorilla owes his power-dunking antics to George Nissen's springy technology. It's a sad time in the world of sports as George Nissen, the visionary behind the trampoline, passed away on ...

LOS ANGELES — George Nissen, who as a teenage gymnast was inspired to invent the modern trampoline after watching trapeze artists bounce off a safety net, has died. He was 96. Nissen died ...

George Nissen, a schoolboy tumbler inspired to invent the trampoline in 1934 after watching circus aerialists do flips while bouncing in the net beneath the trapeze, died at 96.

George Nissen, who as a teenage gymnast was inspired to invent the modern trampoline after watching trapeze artists bounce off a safety net, has died. He was 96.

LOS ANGELES - George Nissen, who as a teenage gymnast was inspired to invent the modern trampoline after watching trapeze artists bounce off a safety net, has died. He was 96.