(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.
How was Joseph Kittinger's parachute jump in 1960 similar to Andre Jacques Garnerin's jump in 1797? andre-AndrÃ© Jacques garnerin was probably the first parachute.jumper  in (1797 over 100 years before airplanes were),invented he jumped  from a hot air. balloonicolas-Jacques Conte invented the pencil at the request of Lazare  Nicolas Marguerite Carnot because at that time France was under a  blockade and could not import graphite â¦ from England. He invented a  pencil by mixing clay and graphite powder in varying quantities. He  received a patent for it in 1795.