New Delhi: Google has posted an interactive doodle on its home page to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. It was on October 22, 1797 French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump.
André-Jacques Garnerin's historic jump was carried out using a silk parachute and 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)
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. André-Jacques Garnerin died on August 18, 1823.
Users can control the direction of Garnerin's parachute in the Google doodle using the left and the right arrow keys on the keyboard or by tilting to the right or left on a smartphone. There are no points to score though.
To highlight the changes brought forth by its latest Hummingbird search algorithm, Google has used a conversational search query associated with the doodle - "When was the first parachute jump?" - instead of the usual name or event keywords that was the norm in earlier doodles.
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