Leonardo da vinci inventions parachute

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first inventors to push the idea of a working parachute.

Leonardo da vinci inventions parachute

His own designs have been proven effective in a test carried out in the UK in the year 2000.

Introduction

There are some examples of earlier designs bearing a similarity to modern-day parachutes, but Da Vinci was probably the first to produce something which feasibly could work.

He implemented a greater complexity to his parachute than had been seen before and avoided some of the cruder solutions that had been put forward centuries earlier.

It was specifically the shape of the parachute which was unique to Da Vinci's design, at that time, with a more considered design in which a pyramidal or conical shape would function more effectively against air flow.

Leonardo had studied the impact of wind and air upon flying birds earlier in his life and could translate many of his learnings into pa