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    Who was the first known parachute designer?

    Question #75386. Asked by FunTrivia17. (Feb 03 07 12:08 AM)


    star_gazer

    		Leonardo de Vinci

    Feb 03 07, 12:49 AM
    zbeckabee

    		The first known written account of a parachute concept is found in da Vinci's notebooks (c l495).


    http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blparachute.htm

    Feb 03 07, 10:19 AM
    lanfranco

    		There is some reason to believe that Arabs and the Chinese were experimenting with parachutes well before the 15th century. This site even offers a couple of 9th-century names, though they may not be reliable. There is also an anonymous manuscript discussing parachutes that seems to precede Leonardo's. Scroll down to "History":


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute

    Feb 03 07, 11:08 AM

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