Leonardo Da Vinci -"A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law. It lies within the power of
man to make this instrument with all its motions"
L
eonardo began making sketches of ideas on how one might escape from say a burning building...
1600
Fausto De Veranzio - Made the first recorded parachute jump.
Exact date is unclear
1700
Montgolfier Brothers - First demo flight in a Hot Air Balloon
Pilatre de Rozier - Flew 5.5 miles over Paris in a balloon
1746 Benjamin Robins -Whirling Arm design's (wind tunnel designs)
An english mathematician, was the first to employ a whirling arm. His first machine had an arm 4 feet long. Spun by a falling
weight acting on a pulley and spindle arrangement, the arm tip reached velocities of only a few feet per second
1783 Louis Sebastien Lenormand - Credited with the First person to demonstrate the parachute in France
