Information from Aerofiles.com
Thomas Scott Baldwin, holder of Dirigible Balloon Pilot license #1, is also credited with the invention of the first practical parachute, in 1885, although he never bothered to patent his idea.
National Air & Space Museum, Jan 2014
Used various engines 60 hp Hall-Scott V-8, Curtiss, and 75 hp Rausie
Baldwin used steel tubing for the structure of the Red Devil.