(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet. 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school. (obsolete) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
The parachute, like the helicopter and the hang glider, dates back to the drawings of mankind's greatest public genius, Leonardo da Vinci.
Louis-Sebastien SÃ©bastien lenormand is considered the first human to make a witnessed descent with a. Parachute on 26 december, 1783 he jumped from the tower of The montpellier observatory In, france in front of a crowd that Included Joseph, montgolfier using a 14 (feet.4 3) m parachute with a rigid wooden. frame