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André-Jacques Garnerin (January 31 1769 - August 18 1823) was the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was born in Paris.
   His early experiments were based on umbrella-shaped devices. He was captured by British troops during the first phase of the Napoleonic Wars 1792 - 1797, turned over to the Austrians and held a prisoner in Buda in Hungary for three years.
   After his release, Garnerin was involved with the flight of hot air balloons. He carried out the first jump with a Silk parachute on October 22 1797, jumping out of a balloon over Parc Monceau, Paris. After a descent of, he landed without injury in front of an admiring crowd. On October 3-4 1803, he covered a distance of 245 miles (395 km) between Paris and Clausen with his balloon.
   His wife Jeanne-Geneviève was the first female parachutist; as no real material parachute can sustain its entire flight without some positive above-zero glide ratio, then for some, if not almost all of her descent was in a gliding parachute (subset of hang gliders) and thus she was the best candidate for being the first woman hang glider rider.
   Garnerin died in a construction accident while making a balloon in Paris. He was hit by a beam.

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