La locomotion aérienne passive: parachutes, gliders and fall experiments – Historic Print
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La locomotion aérienne passive: parachutes, gliders and fall experiments comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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La locomotion aérienne passive: parachutes, gliders and fall experiments
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The title, "La locomotion aérienne passive," sets this picture apart by framing flight as something a person is carried through rather than one who powers the craft, with parachutes, gliders, and falling experiments grouped together under that heading. Such scenes belong to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when inventors across Europe tested whether a body could descend safely through the air and whether a wing without an engine could hold a person aloft. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand gave the parachute its name in 1783, and André-Jacques Garnerin made well-known descents in the years after. Images like this one often show how a few basic ideas about falling, lift, and drag were being worked out before powered flight arrived.
| Original scan | 5,000 × 3,665 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02512u |
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