Andre-Jacques Garnerin debuted the modern parachute 216 years ago today. Oct. 22, 2013— -- It's hard to associate parachutes with anything but people skydiving from airplanes. But the first ...

New Delhi: The world's first parachute jump on October 22, 1797 was celebrated today by search engine Google by posting an interactive animated doodle on its home page featuring a man wearing a hat ...

Google’s newest interactive Doodle, which was unveiled Tuesday, pays homage to André-Jacques Garnerin, a French aeronaut who completed the first frameless parachute jump 216 years ago on this day.

The latest Google Doodle is celebrating the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. This jump was done by Andre-Jacque Garnerin, though his jump was not exactly what many would think of by the ...

Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of knowledge, successfully jumped from the edge of space at 135,890 feet (41,420 meters) on Friday evening. The computer scientist remained in freefall for ...

The parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. Parachutes are usually made of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now mostly nylon. It was ...

(UPI) -- Google's interactive doodle for Tuesday is a sweetly animated tribute to the very first parachute jump in history. Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin invented the frameless parachute, using a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Google's latest search page doodle is celebrating the first person in history known to have made a jump with a parachute. Frenchman Andrew Garnerin jumped from ...

The latest Google doodle celebrates the 216th anniversary of the world’s first parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin, French daredevil made 3,000ft plunge from a balloon using a silk parachute on ...

Google has changed the design of its homepage to celebrate Andre-Jacque Garnerin’s jump on October 22 1797 from a balloon above Parc Monceau in Paris. The Frenchman used a seven-metre silk parachute ...

Google has changed the design of its homepage to celebrate Andre-Jacque Garnerin’s jump on October 22 1797 from a balloon above Parc Monceau in Paris. The Frenchman used a seven-metre silk parachute ...