10 Inventors Killed By Their Inventions
The difference between humans and machines is that we think and take risks.
But sometimes risk are too great and can cause fatalities.
However, some inventors were not so lucky and were killed by the very inventions they invented!
Heres a look at the top ten inventors who were killed by their own inventions.
She was the joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1903 along with her husband Pierre.
#2 Franz Reichelt Coat Parachute
If there was one risk-taking inventor, it was Franz Reichelt.
He is known as The Flying Tailor and is credited with inventing the coat parachute.
On February 04, 1912, Franz held a major press venue so they could witness his inaugural jump.
He leaped from the first deck and gravity took over.
The tragic inventors death was captured on video and still lives on.
He contracted lead poisoning from continuous exposure to leaded petrol and was left disabled in his bed.
This caused him to create an elaborate system of pulleys and ropes to make it lift himself from bed.
His part-time invention includes a pair of feather-covered wooden wings to fly like a bird.
To impress the Iman, Mr. A-Jawhari jumped off the roof of the mosque hoping theyd work.
They didnt and he died.
In a bizarre accident, Bullock was killed by his own invention.
Bullock tried to kick a driving belt onto a pulley.
His leg was crushed when it became caught in the machine.
After a few days, he developed gangrene.
On April 12, 1867, Bullock died during an operation to amputate the leg.
He is buried in Union Dale Cemetery on Pittsburghs North Side.
He was the first person to make repeated successful gliding flights.
On August 10, 1896, Lilienthal experimented with shifting weight in a glider at fifty feet.
It lost lift, stalled, and he augered into the ground, breaking his neck and spine.
He died the next day.
His final words were, Small sacrifices must be made!
He was jailed in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution for his opposition to Vladimir Lenin.
He somehow talked his way out of death row and back into medicine where he became obsessed with blood.
He invented an original philosophy called tectology, now regarded as a forerunner of systems theory.
He died two days later on April 07, 1928, but the patient slowly got better.
Given his success with flight, Valier thought itd be cool to make a rocket-propelled car.
It worked, too, and he got it up to 250 mph.
Trying to get even better, Valier experimented with alcohol as a combustible.
That got away on him and blew up on his workbench, killing Valier and burning his workshop down.
Valiers work, however, lives on.
He was told that the reef was too treacherous to mark.
The Eddystone lighthouse was successfully completed and helped save many ships.
He got his wish.
Winstanley was visiting the lighthouse that night to make repairs, and he lost his life.
#10 Horace Lawson Hunley Submarine
Horace Lawson Hunley invented the submarine.
His first prototype trapped seven sailors underwater and killed them all.
Hunley, which he skippered himself.
source: www.techworm.net
