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Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt [1] or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born [2] French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.
André-Jacques Garnerin was born in Paris. During the first phase of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1797), he was captured by British troops. Subsequently, he was turned over to the Austrians and held as a prisoner of war in Buda, Hungary, for three years.
[Sky 1] In the 1920s working with Switlik Parachute Company of Trenton, New Jersey, he designed a new rip cord and parachute pack with improved function and cost(U.S. Patent No. 1,755,414 “Floyd Smith Safety Pack.”) Smith also invented the “Floyd Smith Safety Seat” for Switlik (U.S. Patent No. 1,779,338).
The earliest evidence for the true parachute dates back to the Renaissance period. [2] The oldest parachute design appears in a manuscript from the 1470s attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini (British Library, Add MS 34113, fol. 200v), showing a free-hanging man clutching a crossbar frame attached to a conical canopy.
Veranzio's 1595 parachute design titled "Flying Man" Parachute. The earliest known parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from 1470s Renaissance Italy; [10] it depicts a free-hanging man clutching a crossbar frame attached to a conical canopy. [11] As a safety measure, four straps run from the ends of the rods to a waist belt.
Štefan Banič (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʂcefam ˈbaɲitʂ]; 23 November 1870 – 2 January 1941) was a Slovak inventor who patented an early parachute design. [1]Born in Jánostelek (Slovak: Neštich, Smolenická Nová Ves), Austria-Hungary (now Smolenická Nová Ves, a part of Smolenice, Slovakia), Banič immigrated to the United States and worked as a coal miner in Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
The "aerial screw" was one of several aerial machines drawn by Leonardo, including an early parachute, an ornithopter and a hang glider. The pen-and-ink sketch outlines an idea for a flying machine similar to a modern helicopter , with a spiral rotor or "aerial screw" based on a water screw , but intended to push against the fluid of the air ...