Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (May 25, 1757 – December 1837) was a French chemist, physicist, inventor and the first pioneer in modern parachuting in the world. He is considered as the first man to make a witnessed descent with a parachute and is also credited with coining the term parachute, from the Greek prefix para meaning \"against\", and the French word chute for \"fall\", hence the word \"parachute\" literally means an aeronautic device \"against a fall\". After making a jump from a tree with the help of a pair of modified umbrellas, Lenormand refined his contraption and on December 26, 1783 jumped from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in front of a crowd that included Joseph Montgolfier, using a 14-foot parachute with a rigid wooden frame. His intended use for the parachute was to help entrapped occupants of a burning building to escape unharmed. Lenormand was succeeded by André-Jacques Garnerin who made the first parachute descent from high altitude in a gondola detached from a balloon, with the help of a non-rigid or collapsible parachute on October 22, 1797, and his wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse who made a similar descent two years later."@en }
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- Louis-Sébastien_Lenormand abstract "Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (May 25, 1757 – December 1837) was a French chemist, physicist, inventor and the first pioneer in modern parachuting in the world. He is considered as the first man to make a witnessed descent with a parachute and is also credited with coining the term parachute, from the Greek prefix para meaning \"against\", and the French word chute for \"fall\", hence the word \"parachute\" literally means an aeronautic device \"against a fall\". After making a jump from a tree with the help of a pair of modified umbrellas, Lenormand refined his contraption and on December 26, 1783 jumped from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in front of a crowd that included Joseph Montgolfier, using a 14-foot parachute with a rigid wooden frame. His intended use for the parachute was to help entrapped occupants of a burning building to escape unharmed. Lenormand was succeeded by André-Jacques Garnerin who made the first parachute descent from high altitude in a gondola detached from a balloon, with the help of a non-rigid or collapsible parachute on October 22, 1797, and his wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse who made a similar descent two years later.".