Le premier parachute utilisé par Jacques Garnerin à la terre dans le Parc Mousseaux, 22 octobre 1797. Trois illustrations techniques montrent calot du parachute (parachute déployé de la couronne) ; Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe (libération d'ordre ascendant ballon) ; et
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The first parachute used by Jacques Garnerin to land in Parc Mousseaux, October 22, 1797. Three technical illustrations show Calotte du parachute (crown of deployed parachute); Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe (release from ascending balloon); and Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la séparation d'avec le ballon (separation when it becomes fully deployed). André-Jacques Garnerin (January 31, 1769 - August 18, 1823) was a balloonist, inventor of the frameless parachute, and Official Aeronaut of France. A student of the ballooning pioneer professor Jacques Charles, he was involved with the flight of hot air balloons, and worked with his brother Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Garnerin (1766-1849) in most of his ballooning activities. He began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices and carried out the first parachute descent (in the gondola) with a silk parachute on October 22, 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris. He visited England in 1802, with his wife Jeanne Geneviève, during the Peace of Amiens and the couple completed a number of demonstration flights. He died in 1823, at the age of 54, in a construction accident when he was hit by a beam while making a balloon in Paris.
