When people hear about inventors who lost their lives because of their own inventions, certain well-known cases come to mind: Madame Curie, who died of radiation-induced anemia; Franz Reichelt, who jumped to his death from the Eiffel Tower wearing his own parachute; Horace Lawson Hunley, who drowned in the submarine he designed and built himself; and Otto Lilienthal, who broke his neck when the glider he designed stalled and crashed. This list, however, describes the tragic irony of ten lesser-known, but equally important, inventors who lost their lives while using their own inventions… Read More