The Parachute

By KeeganFN18
  • Period: May 31, 1498 to

    The parachute

  • Jun 4, 1519

    The design for the parachute is made

    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.