7.10.04

Maybe it's part of the collective unconscious

Apparently, the man who invented the parachute was Slovak.

Stefan Banic, a Slovak inventor, constructed a prototype of a parachute in 1913 and tested it in Washington D.C. in front of the U.S. Patent Office and military representatives by jumping from a 41-floor building and subsequently from an airplane in 1914.

Or maybe not. As the same source notes in the sidebar

In fact, Stefan Banic had a predecessor in Slovakia who is not well-known. It was Professor Faust Vrancic (Vrančič, Fausto Veranzio, Faustus Verantius), originally from Croatia, who constructed a parachute (it was a frame wrapped with linen, 6 x 6 meters in size, to which the parachutist was fastened by four ropes) and jumped with it from the tower of St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava in the presence of many citizens in 1603. Later he repeated the experiment in Belgrade and Venice.

But you wouldn't expect the good folk at Slovakopedia to give undo credit to a Croat, now would you? Or an Italian. Or a Frenchman.

posted by Theo @ 8:53 PM

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