Michael Jackson’s anti-gravity shoe invention

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the Alexandria City Museum (in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) have displayed documents and records related to Michael’s invention in a special exhibit. The exhibition, which opened on July 15, will run until September 7 and is open to the public. The museum is located within the Patent Office. Invention item: Anti-gravity shoes Inventor: Michael Jackson and others (Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins—who designed his clothes for years) Patent number: 5,255,452 Why were these shoes invented? Michael had designed a dance move to perform the song Smooth Criminal, in which he and the accompanying dancers had to lean forward so they could overcome the pull of Earth’s gravity and form an angle of approximately 45 degrees with the ground. At first, cables were used that were attached to the dancers’ waists and held them up from above so they wouldn’t fall.

But this design was too obvious on stage during live performances and wasn’t practical. So Michael invented a shoe that used a hole in the heel as a tool to hook into clamps built into the stage floor. This way, when the dancers leaned forward, their weight was supported against the pull of the Earth. This dance move is one of Michael’s most famous and influential moves, after the Moonwalk. You can download the method and description of this invention as a PDF file download. Source: eMJey / MJFC