Mr. Cocking's New Parachute

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URI

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193416

Date

1837

Description

Article from The Mirror about Robert Cocking's parachute accident and the history of the development of parachutes. An accompanying engraving shows Cocking's parachute ascending while attached to Charles Green's Vauxhall Balloon.

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Subject

Ballooning -- Accidents, Balloonists, Inventions, Parachutes, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Gye, Frederick, 1810-1878, Graham, George, active 1823-1853, Garnerin, André Jacques, 1769-1823, Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809, Green, Charles, 1785-1870, Cocking, Robert