1797 – Selldon Photography

First Parachute Jump (1797)

Okt. 20, 2025Selldon2900 People in History, Selective Coloration1797, 20/10, Garnerin, Parachute Jump

Garnerin began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices and carried out the first frameless parachute descent (in the gondola) with a silk parachute on 20 October 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris…