Labels:book | box | lodestone | person | pole | poster | reckoner OCR: FLIGHT Some - of Leonardo's inventions for PARACHUTE little flight, such practical as the lapplica tion parachute, in the had 15th century With the invention of the airplane centuries later, his idea would prove to be inval luable. eonardo made this sketch 300 years before the first successful parachute jump in 1797 Leonardo's parachute was made of airtight canvas in a pyramid shape measuring 23 feet wide by 23 feet high. The skydiver held on to the cords with his hands FLIGI "If man has tent made of clogged cloth, each side of which is12 arm- lengths wide and which is 12 arm- -lengths high, then he can jump from any great altitude without hurting himself" 1996 SoftKey Multimedia Inc., subsidiary of SoftKey International Inc application invaluable SoftKev
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