Andrew Garnerin - First Recorded Parachute Jump

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According to André-Jacques Garnerin’s WikiPedia entry, he started experimenting on early parachutes based on umbrella-looking devices, and on the 22nd of October year 1797, he successfully “descended” using a silk parachute at Parc Monceau, Paris.
Google is running a couple of doodles today, one to celebrate the birthday of famed salsa singer Celia Cruz, the other to mark the anniversary of the first parachute jump by French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin.

The jump took place on October 22, 1797 when Garnerin made a controlled descent after abandoning his balloon. However, the first publicly recorded parachute jump is said to have taken place several years earlier, in 1783, when Louis-Sébastien Lenormand tested a wooden structure design he had created himself.

Garnerin, however, used the lighter and stronger silk for his parachute, as opposed to the linen used before, and got rid of the frame, thus designing the first "modern" parachute.

The silk parachute was attached to the gondola of his balloon. His first descent was from about 900 meters (3,000 feet).

The doodle is already displayed on Google Australia and several other local versions of the site, in countries where it's already October 22. It should start being available in more places as the day passes.

Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/q-when-was-the-first-parachute-jump-a-october-22-1797/429734-11.html?utm_source=ref_article

Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/q-when-was-the-first-parachute-jump-a-october-22-1797/429734-11.html?utm_source=ref_article

Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/q-when-was-the-first-parachute-jump-a-october-22-1797/429734-11.html?utm_source=ref_article

Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/q-when-was-the-first-parachute-jump-a-october-22-1797/429734-11.html?utm_source=ref_article

Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

Read more at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/q-when-was-the-first-parachute-jump-a-october-22-1797/429734-11.html?utm_source=ref_article