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18 comments to "Five People Killed By Their Own Inventions"
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CheeseDuck
April 28th, 2008 at
2:48 pm
Heh. Irony.
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Scrowed
April 28th, 2008 at
2:56 pm
I don’t care if Reichelt died, a coat/parachute is a fantastic idea. It would be like a cross between mary poppins and base jumping!
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Jesse
April 28th, 2008 at
3:05 pm
Wikipedia states that he did not actually invent the guillotin. He was apparently on a panel to discuss better methods for execution, which eventually led to the device.
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J of The Sandhills
April 28th, 2008 at
3:10 pm
have to give major props to inventors who use themselves as test subjects.
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bean
April 28th, 2008 at
4:05 pm
Any time someone prominent in Soviet Russia dies under unusual circumstances, an angel gets its wings.
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NeuroGirl
April 28th, 2008 at
4:22 pm
The phonetic pronunciation is dye-klor-o-dye-flor-o-meth-ane
The lab stole my real life…
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Ashley
April 28th, 2008 at
5:23 pm
Again about the pronunciation, I’d like to clarify why it’s not as hard as it looks. Molecules are named first (the last part of the name) by the base, in this case methane. Then they add the things that are connected to the base, in this case two (di) chlorines (chloro) and two fluorines (fluoro). di-chloro-di-fluoro-methane.
Pretty neat post though! Accidents like the printing press happen all the time, unfortunately.
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mindy
April 28th, 2008 at
10:03 pm
What an interesting topic! Franz Reichelt’s final flight was captured on film and it’s fascinating.
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Alannah
April 28th, 2008 at
10:43 pm
“Apparently there’s a long-standing story that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin died at the “hand” of his namesake invention, the Bowie Knife”
I just did my first honest to God spit take. Thanks for that life changing experience. -
Rich
April 29th, 2008 at
8:24 am
“Midgley was assigned to develop a non-toxic refrigerant for household appliance” which he did!
CFCs are not necessarily TOXIC… you can take a quick wiff (as long as you’re not huffing them) without longterm harmful side effects… especially compared with the other major refrigerants at the time: ammonia and suphur dioxide. CFC refrigerants are really great as long as you don’t let it float up to the ozone layer.
Too bad copper bandits don’t care about the environment.
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fsmarch
April 29th, 2008 at
8:36 am
I guess I’m being morbid, but I found the guy in the parachute suit hilarious! (I did not watch the video, though.) I felt sorry for the other people, though.
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L
April 29th, 2008 at
3:11 pm
I feel sorry for the printing press dude. I would have thought that by 1867 they’d know that a crushed leg is pretty much toast. Maybe he would have survived if they hadn’t waited a week to do something! Ouch.
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SoLo
April 29th, 2008 at
3:35 pm
Re: The inventor, Thomas Midgley Jr: “…in 1940, he developed polio.” Compared to his other inventions, this was easily the worst.
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vegetarian
April 30th, 2008 at
4:08 am
Alfred Nobel’s brother died in an explosion while making dynamite.
Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite.
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mp3
April 30th, 2008 at
4:09 am
Didn’t the guy who designed the Titanic go down with the ship? What was his name?
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Michael J
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:18 pm
I remember in one of my music history classes about Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Tully’s mishap (thank you wikipedia):
On January 8, 1687, Lully was conducting a Te Deum in honor of Louis XIV’s recent recovery from illness. He was beating time by banging a long staff (a precursor to the baton) against the floor, as was the common practice at the time, when he struck his toe, creating an abscess. The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have his toe amputated and the gangrene spread resulting in his death on 22 March. He left his last opera, Achille et Polyxène, unfinished.
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mark ggwiz
May 6th, 2008 at
10:43 pm
Everyone takes chances.The guy with the blood though,he should of tried the blood of a newborn.What was this guy thinking.
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Camille
May 8th, 2008 at
11:00 am
About the guillotine, the inventor might not have been killed by his own invention but I think it’s a historical fact that Louis XVI who was a better inventor than a king helped him perfectionate his creation by recommending a triangular blade with a beveled edge instead of a crescent one. And Louis XVI was beheaded by this guillotine.
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