Google doodles André-Jacques Garnerin, the first parachute jump

New Delhi: Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to commemorate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump.

On October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump. André-Jacques Garnerin's first parachute jump was carried out using a silk parachute.

Garnerin born on January 31, 1769 studied physics and became an inspector in the French army in 1793. He followed his first parachuting in 1797 in Paris with many other exhibitions.

The first parachute jump was from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres) and five years later Garnerin bettered it with a jump from 8,000 feet (2,440 metres)

André-Jacques Garnerin died on August 18, 1823.

Users can control the direction of Garnerin's parachute in the doodle using the left and the right arrow keys on the keyboard or by tilting to the right or left on a smartphone.