Google Flies High To Celebrate 216 Years Of The First Parachute Landing | TechTree.com

Google Flies High To Celebrate 216 Years Of The First Parachute Landing

Refresh and replay, till you get bored!

 

Interactive Google doodles have always enjoyed a healthy fan following, and todays will possibly be no different. After all, netizens look for ways to while away time online anyway. Today's doodle celebrates the first successful landing of a frameless parachute. Considering that it was a French man's success story, every time the guy takes off, he lands in a different setting. So refresh and replay till you get bored!

A good light years ago, (1797 to be precise) a France balloonist, André Garnerin was credited with being the first to descent using a frameless parachute, at Parc Monceau in Paris. His landing had been far from smooth, as the parachute swung violently when suspended, somthing that the doodle recreates with mouse clicks. Apart from inventing the frameless parachute, Garnerin also invented the vented parachute that helped stabilising free falls. Read all about it here.


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