Greatest Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions

The Top Ten

1 Henry Fleuss - Oxygen Rebreather

2 William Bullock - Rotary Printing Press

3 Otto Lilienthal - Hang Glider

4 Horace Lawson Hunley - Combat Submarine

5 Sabin Arnold von Sochocky - Radium Based Luminescent Paint

6 Michael Dacre - Flying Taxi

7 Karel Soucek - Shock Absorbent Barrel

8 Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari - Wooden Wings

9 Max Valier - Liquid Fueled Rocket Car

10 Thomas Midgley, Jr. - System of Pulleys and Strings to Help Others Lift Him from Bed

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