André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official...

André-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute. Jeanne Labrosse was amongst the crowd watching André-Jacques Garnerin's...

Élisa Garnerin (1791 – 1853) was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the niece of the pioneer parachutist André-Jacques Garnerin, and took advantage...

fixed-canopy parachutes (already "open" before the jump began), and André-Jacques Garnerin had invented a frameless parachute suitable for use from high altitudes...

to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis...

Parc Monceau was the site of the first silk parachute jump, when André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a Montgolfier hot air balloon, landing in the park where...

watercolour artist with a keen amateur interest in science. He had seen André-Jacques Garnerin make the first parachute jump in England in 1802 (the first modern...

sculptures in London. 28 June: The balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin ascends from Chelsea. 5 July: Garnerin and Edward Hawke Locker make a 17-mile (27.4-kilometre)...

of the balloon led directly to the invention of the parachute. André-Jacques Garnerin, who had flown in a Montgolfier balloon in 1790, wanted to find...

François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803) 1769 – André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (d...