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Leap of Faith: Robert Cocking's Parachute Experiment of July 24, 1837 – Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
Newsflicks - French balloonist #AndreJaques Garnerin made the first # parachute jump above Paris and landed unhurt on Oct 22, 1797 | Facebook
Westmark Corporation - The modern parachute was invented in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France, who made the first recorded public jump in 1783. Lenormand also sketched his device
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Bildagentur | mauritius images | The modern parachute was invented in the 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France,who made the first recorded public jump in 1783.In 1785,Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as
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New Television on X: "On this day, October 22 in 1797, pioneering balloonist, Andre-Jacques Garnerin performed the first successful parachute jump in aviation history dropping from about 6,500 ft. in Paris in
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