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US Patent No. 1319546 Parachute by W.W. Whaley Patented October 21 1919 Size:36x24 The Eastman Pipe Patent —Us Patent No. 1319546 Parachute by Ww Whaley Patented October 21 1919 Whaley's filing arrives in the strange dawn after the Great War, when silk canopies were still being argued into existence and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of shroud lines. The schematic maps every gore and harness loop with the patience of a man who knew the math had to hold at terminal velocity. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives