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André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.
1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m), André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute. 1877 – Scotland's worst mining accident occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire , killed 207 miners.
The balloonist and parachuting pioneer André-Jacques Garnerin announced in 1798 that on his next ascent he would be accompanied by a young woman. Although the public and press were in favour of Garnerin's idea, he was forced to appear in front of officials of the Central Bureau of Police to attempt to justify his project.
First successful jump from a balloon with a parachute: Andre Jacques Garnerin in Paris in 1797. [20] First balloon ascent on horseback. Pierre Testu-Brissy ascended from Belleville Park in Paris. [21] First woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse jumped from an altitude of 3,000 ft (900 m) on October 12, 1799.
October 22, André-Jacques Garnerin jumps from a balloon from 975 meters (3,199 feet) over Parc Monceau in Paris in a 7-meter (23-foot)-) diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket attached. He is declared "official French aeronaut of the state".
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October 22 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, at Parc Monceau, Paris; he uses a silk parachute to descend approximately 3,000 feet (910 m) from a hot air balloon. November – 1797 Rugby School rebellion : The students at Rugby School in England rebel against the headmaster, Henry Ingles, after he decrees that the ...
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