Top 10 Inventors Who's Killed By Their Own Inventions

Here's the top 10 inventors who is killed by their own inventions, people always said that with great powers comes great responsibilities, it's actually not that different with inventions with great inventions comes great treat of failing,  it could even bocome a great threat on the inventors life, because inventions / discoveries always need experiment to be done, and when it comes to experiment, it is always include some risk in it, and sometimes those risk could be life threatening.

We begin with this gentle man below:

Henry Winstanley

He is an architect lighthouse (lighthouse) which is very well known who built Eddystone lighthouse. He had a homemade lighthouses want ngetes strength so that he is in the lighthouse in a storm. But in fact it collapsed and killed him along with five others.

Alexander Bogdanov

He is a physicist, philosopher, economic, sci-fi writer, and revolutionary Russia headliner. One of the scientific experiment is the idea of ​​rejuvenation (rejuvenation) through blood transfusion. After doing a lot of blood transfusions for famous people, including his girlfriend Sodara Lenin, he decided to do a blood transfusion from other patients to himself. The patient was suffering from malaria and tuberculosis (TB). As a result, he died shortly after the transfusion.

Cowper Phipps Coles

He is a Royal Navy Captain who invented the spinning turet for warships during the Crimean War. After the war, he patented his invention and began building his own boat by using a design that he created earlier. His ship was named HMS Captain, which requires some modifications and unusual limb, including the "hurricane deck" which increases the ship's center of gravity. On 6 Sept 1870, HMS Captain Coles overturned and killed along with 500 crew.

Karel Soucek

He is a Canadian stuntman who is famous for his discovery of a "capsule" which used to skate at Niagara Falls. He is still alive, but suffered some wounds. In 1985, he convinced a company to fund the same experiment but performed from the Houston Astrodome in Texas. Tailor-made waterfall from the top of buildings as high as 180 feet, dg a plunge pit beneath. However, the experiment was a failure, Soucek ga pit plunge until the reply provided. He was seriously wounded and died the next day.

Franz Reichelt

He is an Austrian tailor headliner making strange hybrid parachute who claims to be able to make the wearer achieve the verifiable stories very soft ground or even to fly. He conducted experiments of the first deck at the Eiffel Tower and he jump freely to the ground and died.

Otto Lilienthal

He is a pioneer within the manufacture of gliders therefore he was dubbed Glider King. He was the first person who managed to perform gliding flight several times. On the flight on August 9, 1896, he fell as high as 17 feet and broke his spinal cord. He died the next day. last words: "Small Sacrifice must be done!"

William Bullock

He is the inventor of the American who invented the printing press in 1863. He died while trying to fix the printing machine. His feet go into the engine when trying to kick a winch into place. Eventually his leg was crushed and he died during feet amputation surgery.

J. G. Parry-Thomas

He is a man on a motorcycle-racing mechanic as well as Welsh. He always dreamed to be able to break the land speed record ever set by Malcolm Campbell, and began to make a car to do so. He made a car named Babs, who has a lot of modifications. On 27 April 1926, he managed to break the record, but was broken again by Campbell two years later. In an effort to break the record again, one of the chains apart and drifted into his neck, instantly severed his neck and he died.

Thomas Midgley Jr.

He is an American chemist who discovered leaded oil and CFC. He was responsible for many losses attributable to defects in the atmosphere because of his invention. Eventually he suffered from polio and lead poisoning and also disabled. He died at the age of 55 years. Finally, any pollutant creator who dies because of pollutants made.

Marie Curie

She is a renowned physicist and chemist who discovered several new elements, such as radium and polonium, and also some theories like the theory of radioactivity and the isolation of radioactive isotopes. She died on July 4, 1934 due to suffering from aplastic anemia.

Thanks for reading this top 10 inventors who's killed by their own inventions, hopefully this will be a huge input for anyone trying to become inventors out there, cheers and success !!

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