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The modern parachute was invented in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France.

Other early inventors designed parachutes, including Croatian Faust Vrancic who constructed a device based on Da Vinci's drawing. This is only slightly later than the earliest parachute was created: design involving a long piece of cloth with handholds at each end.

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It was in late 1400s that Leonardo da vinci suggested the idea of parachute Leonardo da Vinci simulated the idea with a cloth-covered wooden frame in the shape of a pyramid and had the man hanging underneath.

Fauste Veranzio followed him up by making a similar device and jumped from a tower in Venice in 1617.

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