The Parachute

By KeeganFN18
  • Period: May 31, 1498 to

    The parachute

  • The design for the parachute is made
    Jun 4, 1519

    The design for the parachute is made

    Leonardo davinci draws the design for the first parachute
  • First rigid frame parachute that completed a jump.

    First rigid frame parachute that completed a jump.

    Sebastien Lenormand jumped off the venice tower and landed succesfully.
  • First practical parachute

    First practical parachute

    Sebastien Lenormand demonstrates the first working parachute.
  • Jean Pierre Blanchard uses a parachute in an actual emergency for the first time.

    Jean Pierre Blanchard uses a parachute in an actual emergency for the first time.

    Jean Pierre Blanchard dropped a dog out of baloon in a parachute.
  • Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first soft parachute

    Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first soft parachute

    Jean Pierre Blanchard succesfully deploys his soft parachute design.
  • First recorded soft parachute jump

    First recorded soft parachute jump

    Andrew Garnerin was the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. Garnerin jumped from hot air balloons as high as 8,000 feet in the air. Garnerin also designed the first air vent in a parachute intended to reduce oscillations.
  • First parachute harness

    First parachute harness

    Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness.
  • The military starts to use parachutes

    The military starts to use parachutes

    The military starts to use parachutes.
  • Sport parachutes

    Sport parachutes

    they now make sport parachutes widely available.