Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . eye. Par-a-chute. A device by which a descent ismade from a balloon or eminence. It is a lightstructure, and attords a large area of resistance tothe atmosphere. Loubere, in his account of Siam published 200years since, describes a machine of this kind usedin descending hights. It was not employed in Europe till 1783, whenM. le Normand proved its eflicacy by let
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . eye. Par-a-chute. A device by which a descent ismade from a balloon or eminence. It is a lightstructure, and attords a large area of resistance tothe atmosphere. Loubere, in his account of Siam published 200years since, describes a machine of this kind usedin descending hights. It was not employed in Europe till 1783, whenM. le Normand proved its eflicacy by letting him-self from tlie windows of a lofty house in tlie cityof Lyons. Blanchard. in a balloon ascension in August, 1785,let down a dog from a great bight by means of aparachute, without injury. He afterward appliedit to descending from a balloon, in 1793, but, tlieniacliiue failing to expand fully, he broke liis leg inalighting. The first successful descent by a parachute from aballoon was by lions. Garnerin, in Paris, October21, 1797 ; he descended again September 21, 1802,when on a visit to England for the purpose of prac-ticing aiirostation among the islanders. This para-chute consisted of thii-ty-two gores of white
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