Google Interactive Doodle -216th Anniversary Of The First Parachute Jump
Today when I logged in saw an interactive Google doodle to my surprise. The page celebrated 216 th anniversary of the first parachute jump. French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin, on October 22, 1797 was the first person to conduct a parachute jump. The Frenchman’s near historic jump was conducted from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres). Again five years later Mr. André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a height of 8,000 feet (2,440 metres). Silk parachutes were used over two centuries ago. About Garnerin -Born on January 31, 1769 Education- studied physics and became an inspector in the French army in 1793. Death- August 18, 1823. TIME LINE 1000 B.C.E.-Kite is invented in China. 852 B.C.E.-English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly. 400 B.C.E.-Archytas of Tarentum is reported to have made a steam-propelled pigeon. 1250 A.D. -Roger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight. 1485-1500 -Leonardo da Vinci designs flyi...