Comments on: Five People Killed By Their Own Inventions

By: realchomp

realchomp — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:20:03 +0000

cfc's floating up in the air? hmmmmm thats about as likely as watching a block of lead do the same thing!

By: ry my brother

ry my brother — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:49:03 +0000

Hi i am the reading one and i am 7 YEY ME OH I WEARE BOY PAINTS CUZ I PEE IN THEM I NEED HELP

By: popper schopper

popper schopper — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:26:28 +0000

Hey , What up party people! Hi L so i am just asking if 10 year olds can be on here. I AM NOT 10 THAT WOULD BE LAME LOL

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:50 +0000

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.

By: mark ggwiz

mark ggwiz — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:43:13 +0000

Everyone takes chances.The guy with the blood though,he should of tried the blood of a newborn.What was this guy thinking.

By: Michael J

Michael J — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:18:39 +0000

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.

By: mp3

mp3 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:09:57 +0000

Didn't the guy who designed the Titanic go down with the ship? What was his name?

By: vegetarian

vegetarian — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:08:23 +0000

Alfred Nobel's brother died in an explosion while making dynamite.

Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite.

By: SoLo

SoLo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:35:28 +0000

Re: The inventor, Thomas Midgley Jr: "...in 1940, he developed polio." Compared to his other inventions, this was easily the worst.

By: L

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:11:44 +0000

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.

By: fsmarch

fsmarch — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:36:05 +0000

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.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:24:18 +0000

"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.

By: Alannah

Alannah — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:43:29 +0000

"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.

By: mindy

mindy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:03:26 +0000

What an interesting topic! Franz Reichelt's final flight was captured on film and it's fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:23:30 +0000

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.

By: NeuroGirl

NeuroGirl — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:22:40 +0000

The phonetic pronunciation is dye-klor-o-dye-flor-o-meth-ane

The lab stole my real life...

By: bean

bean — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:05:10 +0000

Any time someone prominent in Soviet Russia dies under unusual circumstances, an angel gets its wings.

By: J of The Sandhills

J of The Sandhills — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:10:29 +0000

have to give major props to inventors who use themselves as test subjects.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:35 +0000

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.

By: Scrowed

Scrowed — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:56:26 +0000

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!

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:08 +0000

Heh. Irony.