The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). Creator: Gaston Tissandier.

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The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). The inventor Fauste Veranzio (Faust Vrancic) developed a parachute after studying Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of one. He tested it by jumping from a tower in Venice. Published in "History of Balloons" by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887.

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