I have always wanted to parachute out of a plane!  Have you ever done it?
No I have never jumped out of a plane. I am too scared although I like parachutes and their light and strong fabric.
What kind of fabric is used in a parachute?
They typically use fabrics like nylon these days but in the past silk was used.
Silk!  They must have been really expensive to make.  When was the first parachute jump?
Are you meaning the first time a person used a parachute to jump or the amusement ride of the same name in New York?
The first time someone used a parachute
They say that the first jump in history was completed by Andre' Garnerin on October 22, 1797.
Wow!  That is a long time ago!  Did he jump out of a balloon or something?
. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon above Paris. Garnerin's parachute bore little resemblance to today's parachutes, however, as it was not packed into any sort of container and did not feature a ripcord. The first intentional free-fall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment was not made until over a century later by Leslie Irvin in 1919. While Georgia Broadwick made an earlier free-fall in 1914 when her static line became entangled with her jump aircraft's tail assembly, her free-fall
Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift). Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong fabric, originally silk, now most commonly nylon. They are typically dome-shaped, but vary, with rectangles, inverted domes, and others found. A variety of loads are attached to parachutes, including people, food, equipment, space capsules, and bombs.
A drogue