Tiny Broadwick, a 1900s parachutist, posing beside an airplane in flying gear, with parachute. Charles Broadwick invented the back-pack parachute she is wearing. When the wearer jumped, the chute was automatically pulled from the pack by a line attached to the balloon or airplane.
ID#:
SI-87-13559
Source:
National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
