parachute history

Saturday, January 8, 2011


Parachutes were first discovered in 1783 by Sebastien Lenomand (French), although already sketched and is imagined by Leonardo Da Vinci.
The inventor of the parachute folding is Jean Pierre Blanchard, 1793, using silk material.
Users first parachute is Andrew Garnerin who in 1797 jumped from a hot air balloon at an altitude of 8000 feet using a parachute silk and witnessed many people survived.
Captain Thomas Baldwin in 1887 found the parachute rope and Paul in 1890 Kathchen Letteman and Paul create a method for folding parachutes diransel dipunggung person brought before it opened

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