First Parachuter
The first user of a man-made parachute was not a man or a woman, but a dog. The inventor of the parachute, a Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard, tested his new invention in 1785, by going up in a balloon with his dog, strapping him to a parachute, and tossing him out.
We don’t know whether the dog survived, but we do know that Blanchard’s parachutes did work, so there’s a good chance that the dog made it safely to the ground.
We don’t know whether the dog survived, but we do know that Blanchard’s parachutes did work, so there’s a good chance that the dog made it safely to the ground.