 Circus historians credit him with the invention of the first apparatus in 1876 for what became known as the now famous "human cannonball" act.Although Hunt's son "Lulu" first used it for an act called "Lulu's Leap" since 1873, the performance in London in 1877 by 14-year-old "Zazel" (Rossa Matilda Richter) credited her as being the first "human cannonball".In 1871, he married an English woman named Alice Carpenter.