On June 4, 2018 the team from the Parachute Museum hosted a Speaker Series presentation on the history of the parachute at the Wright Brothers Memorial and Huffman Prairie Interpretive Center. (See the report on the program in the May 2018 Aviation Blog posts - click "May 2018" under "Archive" in the column at the right).
Now a pdf file of the presentation is available to download, for some interesting background on parachute history. CLICK HERE for a download, or see the Parachute Museum page on this website.