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Dagmar: My father, George Nissen, died on April 7, 2010. He was 96 years old and when you are that old it is difficult to survive pneumonia, in which he did die from.

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George Nissen: I went to Paris to demonstrate my new trampoline sport, that I call Spaceball. Also, around this time pilots started using trampolines to get used to orientate themselves in mid-air

George Nissen:  I scaled a pyramid in Egypt with my son-in-law named Ron Munn, Dagmar’s husband. We took a trampoline to the top and I did a few flips. I was 63 years old.1977

George Nissen:  Larry Griswold and I Started the U.S. Tumbling and Trampoline Association in which later split into two organizations1971

George Nissen:  I Married a Dutch Acrobat named Annie De Vries1951

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George Nissen: I joined the navy. I thought that I would be useful because I was in good shape and I was only 29 years old.1943

George Nissen :  Nissen and I opened the Griswold Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Co. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This was a trampoline production company.1941

George Nissen: I was preforming rebound tumbling in Mexico and discovered that the Spanish word for spring board was trampolín. I changed “bouncing rig” to “trampoline”1937

George Nissen : My gymnastics coach, Larry Griswold, had the brilliant idea of putting springs in between the canvas and the steel frame to make it bouncier 1934

George Nissen: I was inspired for the trampoline from trapeze artists using a safety net. I Just attached a canvas sheet to a steel frame and just called it a bouncing rig.1930

Catherine Jensen Nissen: I gave birth to George Nissen February 3, 1914 In Blairston Iowa.

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https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=5168

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nissen

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-nissen-inventor-of-the-trampoline-1962316.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/13nissen.html?_r=1