Who invented parachute ?

Answer 1

A big nosed bloke with a big handkerchief

Answer 2

Leonardo drew a theoretical parachute, but never took the idea any further. A certain Fraust Vrancic leapt from a Venetian tower in 1617 using a Leonardo-esque rigid-framed parachute. However, the first practical parachute was proably invented by Pierre Blanchard in the last eighteenth century. The word Practical is important. It had been known for years that air resistance sould slow the descent of an object; but a rigid-framed structure like Leonardo's was large and cumbersome, and would be impossible to carry around. A true parachute needed to be folded up to a convenient size, but be capable of rapid deployment at need. These problems weren;t completely solved util about 1919.

Answer 3

Credit for the invention of the first practical parachute frequently goes to Sebastien Lenormand who demonstrated the parachute principle in 1783. However, parachutes had been imagined and sketched by Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) centuries earlier and other inventors have designed parachutes, including Croatian Faust Vrancic who constructed a device based on Da Vinci's drawing and jumped from a Venice tower in 1617. Faust Vrancic published Machinae Novae, in which he describes in text and picture fifty-six advanced technical constructions, including Vrancic's parachute called the Homo Volans.

Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) a Frenchman was probably the first person to actually use a parachute for an emergency. In 1785, he dropped a dog in a basket, to which a parachute was attached, from a balloon high in the air. In 1793, Blanchard claims to have escaped from an exploded hot air balloon with a parachute. Blanchard, it should be noted, also developed the first foldable parachute made from silk, up until that point all parachutes were made from rigid frames.

In 1797 (October 22), Andrew Garnerin was the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. Garnerin jumped from hot air ballons as high as 8,000 feet in the air. Garnerin also designed the first air vent in a parachute intended to reduce oscillations.

In 1837, Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute accident.

In 1887, Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness and in 1890, Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus invented the method of folding or packing the parachute in a knapsak to be worn on the back before its release. Kathchen Paulus was also behind the invention of the intentional breakaway, which is when one small parachute opens first and pulls open the main parachute.

Two parachuters claim to be the first man to jump from an airplane, both Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachuted from an airplane in 1911. In 1914, Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick made the first freefall jump.


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The first known written account of a parachute concept is found in da Vinci's notebooks (c l495).

Answer 4

Stefan Banic from Slovakia patented the parachute in 1913.

Answer 5

Sebastien Lenormand. Check out inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blparachute.htm

or Google 'parachute inventor'

Answer 6

i believe it was a french transvestite balloonist in the 18th century called Roland quelfromage. he was infamous the outlandish cross cultural influences on his mode of dress and his inability to take any form of criticism. while up in his balloon one day, his co-pilot, Albert pissoir, mentioned that Roland's voluminous hooped dress did not go well with the heavy iron shod dutch milkmaids clogs he was wearing. driven to a flaming rage, Roland jumped from the balloon. fortunately the clogs acted as a counter weight and his hooped dress filled with air and Roland floated gently to the ground unharmed. this led to some bizarre consequences, it is little known but this spectacle was witnessed by a youthful napoleon, who later formed a regiment of cross dressing airborne shock troops who would drop onto the battle field from balloons. the regiment was disbanded because it affected the fighting ability of the french imperial guard who would p*ss themselves with laughter, rendering them unfit for combat, every time they saw a drop by the airborne troops. sorry i was bored.

Answer 7

A few medieval documents record the use of parachute-like devices to allow a person to fall (somewhat) safely from a height. In 852, an Andalusian-Arab daredevil named Armen Firman jumped from a tower in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts to arrest his fall, sustaining only minor injuries. In the 9th century, another Muslim Abbas Ibn Firnas attempted a similar feat. According to Joseph Needham there were working parachutes in China as early as the 12th century.

Leonardo da Vinci sketched a parachute while he was living in Milan around 1480-1483. However, the idea of the parachute may not have originated with him: the historian Lynn White has discovered an anonymous Italian manuscript from about 1470 that depicts two designs for a parachute, one of which is very similar to da Vinci's. The first successful test of such a parachute was made in 1617 in Venice by the Croatian inventor Faust Vrančić which he named Homo Volans (Flying Man). A 1595 sketch of Vrančić's parachute is at left.

The parachute was re-invented in 1783 by Sébastien Lenormand in France. Lenormand also coined the name parachute. Two years later, Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of safely disembarking from a hot air balloon. While Blanchard's first parachute demonstrations were conducted with a dog as the passenger, he later had the opportunity to try it himself when in 1793 his hot air balloon ruptured and he used a parachute to escape.

Subsequent development of the parachute focused on it becoming more compact. While the early parachutes were made of linen stretched over a wooden frame, in the late 1790s, Blanchard began making parachutes from folded silk, taking advantage of silk's strength and light weight. In 1797, André Garnerin made the first jump using such a parachute. Garnerin also invented the vented parachute, which improved the stability of the fall. Gleb Kotelnikov invented the first knapsack parachute, later popularized by Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus.

At San Francisco in 1885, Thomas Scott Baldwin was the first person in the United States to descend from a balloon in a parachute. On March 1, 1912, US Army Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving aircraft over Missouri. Štefan Banič from Slovakia invented the first actively used parachute, patenting it in 1913. On June 21, 1913 Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to parachute jump from a moving aircraft over Los Angeles.

The first military use for the parachute was for use by artillery spotters on tethered observation balloons in World War I. These were tempting targets for enemy fighter aircraft, though difficult to destroy, due to their heavy antiaircraft defenses. Because they were difficult to escape from, and dangerous when on fire due to their hydrogen inflation, observers would abandon them and descend by parachute as soon as enemy aircraft were seen. The ground crew would then attempt to retrieve and deflate the balloon as quickly as possible. Allied aircraft crews, however, were forbidden from carrying their own parachutes. It was believed to encourage a lack of nerve in action. As well, early parachutes were very heavy, and fighters lacked the performance to carry the additional load through most of WWI. Only the German air service, in 1918, became the world's first to introduce a standard parachute.

Tethered parachutes were initially tried but caused problems when the aircraft was spinning. In 1919 Leslie Irvin invented and successfully tested a parachute that the pilot could deploy when clear of the aircraft.

An early brochure [1] of the Irvin Air Chute Company credits William O'Connor 24 August 1920 at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio as the first person to be saved by an Irvin parachute. Another life-saving jump was made at McCook Field by test pilot Lt. Harold H. Harris on Oct 20, 1922. Shortly after Harris's jump two Dayton newspaper reporters suggested the creation of the Caterpillar Club for successful parachute jumps from disabled aircraft.

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Answer 8

Some say Leonardo (as he has sketches like that)

Answer 9

raja ram mohan roy

Answer 10

Surely it was Geronimo otherwise, why shout his name when you jump with one.