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 Wednesday 4/7/2010 of complications from pneumonia at University of California, San Diego, Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, said his daughter Dagmar.
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