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1st Practical Parachute
Credit for the invention of the first practical parachute frequently goes to Sebastien Lenormand who demonstrated the parachute principle in 1783. -
1st Person to use a parachute in an emergency.
Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard was the first person to actually use a parachute for an emergency. -
1st Person to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame.
In 1797, Andrew Garnerin became the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. -
1st person to die from parachute accident
In 1837, Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute accident. -
1st parachute harness
In 1887, Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness. -
Method of packing a parachute
In 1890, Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus invented the method of folding or packing the parachute in a knapsack to be worn on a person's back before its release. -
1st two people to jump from an airplane
Both Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachuted from an airplane in 1911. -
1st person to freefall jump
In 1914, Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick made the first freefall jump. -
When sport parachutes were first designed
Parachute jumping as a sport began in the 1960s when new "sports parachutes" were first designed.
