20 inventors who were killed by their own creation (21 photos)

Many, if not most, inventors live happily ever after. happy old age and with a sense of accomplishment, they watch their inventions are used and admired by millions of people. Alas, this is not about poor fellow from this post. Reddit users remembered a few scary stories of inventors and their early demise by their own creations.





1. “Horace Hunley killed himself and a bunch of other people on board the submarine he built 150 years before the current psycho."



2. [The same "current psycho"] Stockton Rush is the CEO of OceanGate, which developed the Titan submersible.





3. “Not killed literally, but the girl of the founder of the site Match.com dating Gary Kremen left him for a man with whom she I met on Match.com.



4. “Dr. Charles Drew is one of the most egregious examples. Dr. Charles Drew created/improved blood transfusion. He fell asleep driving and had an accident, as a result of which he lost a lot of blood. Since he was black, due to the racist laws of that era in America, he was denied the right to a life-saving blood transfusion, which he invented it."



5. “Thomas Midgley, Jr., one of the key figures in the development of tetraethyl lead and the creator of CFCs for refrigeration. Having contracted polio, he created a complex system with pulleys and ropes, to get out of bed on his own. He was found dead in age 55, because he got confused in his device and died from suffocation."



6. “Jimi Heselden, creator of the Segway. On the morning of September 26, 2010 Heselden walked his dog on his Segway near Thorpe Arch; when he switched to reverse to let another dog walker through, he fell from a nearby cliff into the River Wharf. The pathologist concluded that Heselden died of "multiple chest injuries and spine caused by a blunt object and corresponding to a fall in gyrobike time. His estate, bequeathed to his widow and relatives, was estimated at over £340 million, and he was one of the 400 richest people according to the Sunday Times.



SourcePhoto 7The Frenchman who tried to invent the parachute and died when decided to prove that his invention works by jumping from the Eiffel towers."



8. “Max Vallier tried to use an alcohol-based propellant for a rocket; it exploded and killed him."



9. “Marie Skłodowska-Curie was one of the pioneers radioactivity. She discovered polonium and radium. As I know, researchers did not know/believed at the time that radioactivity could have a negative effect on their bodies, and therefore almost no used protective equipment.



10. “That guy from India [Ismail Sheikh] who spent flight tests of his homemade helicopter. The blade cut him head."



11. “This is not exactly an inventor, but Luis Hemenez, a sculptor, who created Blucifer, the demonic horse at the international airport Denver [Jiménez died at the age of 65 in his Hondo studio when a large piece of his 10-meter blue mustang sculpture fell on him and cut an artery in his leg]”.



12. “Some guy in Ancient Greece [sculptor Perilai] created an instrument of execution called the "Copper Bull" [Bull of Falaris]. This, by in fact, just a large metal shell in the shape of a bull, where they planted the victim, after which the bull was heated from below. Searing heat and burning metal forced the agonizing victim to reach for the horn inside the shell in trying to get air. The horn outside turned those sounds of agony into a roar bull. The inventor showed his artshaving to the king. The king was delighted with him and decided to test it ... on the inventor.



13. "The man who invented the Atkins diet [Robert Atkins] died of obesity."



14. Luis Zlotin and the Demon Charge. He accidentally started nuclear reaction during a demonstration of reactivity and received a fatal dose of radiation.



15. “Jack Parsons. He invented solid rocket fuel and was fond of black magic. But it was the missiles that killed him.”



16. “Original Goodyear rubber maker. Died from complications caused by prolonged exposure to chemicals with which he worked to create better rubber compounds. sad history, because he never became successful despite his achievements and hard work.



17. “Not quite an inventor, but Carl Wilhelm Scheele is was a chemist who, in fact, discovered elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and acids such as oxalic, lactic, tartaric and hydrofluoric. The dude had a bad habit of tasting various elements he found, such as arsenic, chlorine, mercury, hydrochloric acid, etc., and touch them, and because of this he died.



18. “Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer, designed and piloted various prototype gliders in the late 19th century. Despite his significant contribution to early aviation, Lilienthal died in 1896 due to injuries sustained during the crash of the glider."



19. “The French King Louis XVI helped invent guillotine as a method of execution. During the French Revolution he was decapitated by the same weapon he helped create."



20. “The guy who built the Titanic”: Thomas Andrews was Irish businessman and shipbuilder. Being a constructor ocean liner RMS Titanic, he was on board this ship during the time of its maiden voyage, when on April 14, 1912 the ship collided with iceberg. He died along with over 1,500 other passengers. His body never found."