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Parachuting The first parachute jump in history was made by André-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of the parachute, on 22 October 1797. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet (980 m) above Paris. Garnerin's parachute bore little resemblance to today's parachutes, however, as it was not packed into any sort of container and did not feature a ripcord.[1] The first intentional freefall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment was not made until over a century later by Leslie Irvin in 1919.[2] While Georgia Broadwick made an earlier freefall in 1914 when her static line became entangled with her jump aircraft's tail assembly, her freefall descent was not planned. Broadwick cut her static line and deployed her parachute manually, only as a means of freeing herself from the aircraft to which she had become entangled.[3]
Matt Guthmiller Matthew Lee Guthmiller (born November 29, 1994) is an American aviator, YouTuber,[2] entrepreneur, professional speaker, and student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] At age 19 he set the Guinness World Record for the youngest person to fly around the world, solo, which he set in a bid to encourage others to pursue ambitious dreams and promote computer science education worldwide.[4] Guthmiller also founded an early iPhone unlocking company, AnySIMiPhones, in 2007 at age 12.[5] He is currently a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying electrical engineering and computer science. His latest project is rumored to deal with quantitative finance.[6]