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Andrew Garnerin became the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame.
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Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute accident.
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Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness
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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
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Two parachuters claim to be the first person to jump from an airplane. Both Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachuted from an airplane in 1911.
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Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick made the first freefall jump.
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Stanley Switlik and George Palmer Putnam,formed a joint venture and built a 115-foot tall tower on Stanley's farm in Ocean County. Designed to train airmen in parachute jumping
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the first public jump from the tower was made by Ms. Earhart on June 2, 1935
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Parachute jumping as a sport began in the 1960s when new "sports parachutes" were first designed.
