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The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

The usual accounts credit Leonardo da Vinci with the idea because he included a pyramidal cloth parachute in one of his sketchbooks in 1485. But historian Lynn White has discovered an anonymous set of Renaissance Italian manuscripts on technology that he can date to about 1470 — 15 years ahead of Leonardo.


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