00:0010 Inventions That Killed Their Inventors
00:02The Coat Parachute
00:05Of Franz Reichelt
00:07French Tailor Franz Reichelt believed a wearable parachute suit
00:10could save aviators.
00:12In 1912 he jumped from the Eiffel Tower to prove
00:15it.
00:16The suit failed instantly, and he died on impact, leaving behind one of his
00:20history's most tragic demonstrations of misplaced confidence.
00:25Submersible Of Stockton Rush
00:27OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush pushed under
00:30unconventional designs for deep sea tourism while dismissing safety standards.
00:35In 2023, the Titan submersible imploded during a Titanic dive.
00:40Killing Rush and four others, and proving that innovation without safeguards can be fatal.
00:45The radioactivity research of Marie Curie.
00:49Marie Curie revels
00:50revolutionized science by discovering radium and polonium, but she worked without protection
00:54for decades.
00:55Constant radiation exposure led to a plastic anemia, ultimately causing
01:00her life.
01:01Her notebooks remain dangerously radioactive today.
01:05the combat submarine of Horace Lawson Hunley.
01:08Hunley helped build the
01:10HL Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship.
01:14After earlier
01:15fatal test runs, he personally joined a mission in 1863.
01:20The submarine never resurfaced, killing Hunley and his entire crew.
01:25The flying car of Henry Smolinski.
01:28Smolinski attempted to merge a Ford Pinto
01:30with an airplane to create a flying car.
01:33During a test flight in 1973,
01:35the wings detached midair, killing him and his co-pilot and ending the project.
01:40instantly.
01:41The Aero Wagon of Valerian Abakovsky.
01:45The Aero Wagon was a high-speed rail car powered by an aircraft engine.
01:50In 1921, it derailed at extreme speed, killing its inventor and several
01:55passengers during a return trip from Moscow.
01:58The lead additives of Thomas Midge
02:00Midgeley Jr.
02:01Known for inventing leaded gasoline and CFCs, Midgeley died
02:05tangled in a pulley system he built to lift himself from bed after polio.
02:09Ironically,
02:10his final invention proved as deadly as his chemical legacy.
02:13The rotary
02:15printing press of William Bullock.
02:17Bullock improved newspaper printing speed, but
02:20while adjusting his machine, his foot was crushed by gears.
02:24Complications from the
02:25Injury led to his death during surgery.
02:28The glider of Otto Lilienthal.
02:30A pioneer of human flight, Lilienthal made thousands of successful glides
02:35in 1896.
02:36A sudden gust caused a fatal crash.
02:39His re-
02:40research later inspired the Wright brothers.
02:43The rocket car of Max Velier.
02:45Rocketry pioneer Max Velier experimented with liquid fuel engines.
02:50In 1930,
02:52one exploded during testing, killing him instantly.
02:55And making him the first casualty of modern rocketry.
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03:04And make him the first victim up to be father.
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