Important Inventions and Discoveries in World  » Exercise – 1  
71. What invention caused many deaths while testing it?
   (a)     Dynamite 
 (b)     Ladders 
 (c)     Race cars 
 (d)     Parachute  
 Explanation
Explanation :  Many people who tried to test the first parachutes died by jumping from high places. One attempt was a parachute hat, but the inventor broke his neck while testing it. The first successful parachute was tested from a hot air balloon in 1797, in France, by Jacques Garnerin. 
 
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