forgive me I did this um in my head and
with the number of lifeboats times the
capacity you mentioned forgive me but it
seems that there are not enough for
everyone aboard about half actually
these people had ideas that were to die
for welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten
inventors killed by their own inventions
sort of like straddling a barbecue with
an explosive device underneath for this
list we’re looking at those innovators
that were killed either directly or
indirectly by their own inventions or
discoveries we are excluding those that
simply died experimenting with others
inventions such as Alexander Bogdanov
who died while trying to perfect and
explain the process of blood
transfusions okay and the holes not
designed to deal with that pressure so
what happened she splits number ten
Sylvester H Roper the Roper steam
velocipede it’s going good
she’s flying we got lots of power 1/4
throttle we’re blasting along here uh-oh
20 miles an hour maybe Warren in Francis
town New Hampshire
Sylvester H Roper was a pioneer when it
came to the subject of Motor Vehicles
and more specifically motorcycles and
automobiles Roper created what is often
considered one of the first motorcycles
the Roper steam velocipede
it was while riding the steam-powered
Land vehicle in 1896 that spectators
noticed Roper wobbling upon it at a
considerable forty miles an hour only
for him to fall off and suffer a head
wound following several laps he was
found dead at the scene with an autopsy
revealing heart failure as the cause of
death though whether his loss of balance
was a catalyst for the stress on his
heart or if his heart failed prior to
the crash is unknown he got a look at a
lot of stuff here because otherwise he
could hurt yourself number nine
Horace Lawson Hundley the hand-cranked
submarine they had all their you know
doubts there was a lot of praying on
everything during the American Civil War
forest loss and Hundley served as a
Confederate marine engineer and he
invented various forms of hand powered
submarines to use in battle against
Union troops unfortunately during a
routine exercise in 1863 one of his
submarines took on too much water and
sank killing all men inside including
Hundley Boat Dobbs and the depths of the
Cooper River it becomes pitch black in
there he can’t find a seat cock turn off
the front hatch waters flowing in the
boat becomes nose-heavy gets stuck in
the bottom of the Cooper River in 32
feet of war this submarine called the HL
Hunley after its inventor was eventually
raised and became the first sub to sink
an enemy vessel in naval history so at
least his death wasn’t completely in
vain number eight Henry Winstanley the
Eddystone lighthouse
what’s that towel it’s an old lighthouse
this English painter and engineer add
such a thing for mechanical and
hydraulic gadgets that most of the
county of Essex knew about it he
indulged in this fascination by ensuring
he was always surrounded by mechanisms
that he designed and constructed and the
Eddystone lighthouse was no exception
after becoming a merchant and suffering
the loss of two ships on the Eddystone
rocks henry Winstanley had the
lighthouse built with lavish decorations
and a glass lantern room in 1696 however
his death is perhaps proof that you must
think before you speak
in 1703 after previously proclaiming his
wish to witness the greatest storm there
ever was from inside of it the great
storm of southern England destroyed the
lighthouse and killed him along with it
number seven max valet the
rocket-powered car automobile inventions
are definitely at the forefront of
accidental deaths taking the lives of
Fred Duesenberg Henry Smolinski Frances
Edgar Stanley and valerian a Bukowski
just to name a few
max Valley a self named valley a
Highland track 7 was the first
successful rocket car to run with liquid
propulsion
unfortunately that liquid was
alcohol-based and less than a month
after his successful Rock 7 run while
making tests for a rocket engine a
canister of it exploded on his workbench
in Berlin valet was killed within
minutes on that day in 1930 today he is
remembered as one of the brilliant
individuals who helped pave the way for
space flight number 6
Jacques watt pilâtre de rozier the hose
yeah balloon
I’ll send you a postcard from paradise
Oh considered one of the first pioneers
of aviation Java swap pilâtre de rozier
was a notable French physics and
chemistry teacher des Rosiers is perhaps
best known as the man who made the first
manned free balloon flight along with
the Maquis daolon unfortunately his
ambition got the best of him and he
crashed while attempting to fly his
hozier balloon across the English
Channel in 1795 the hydrogen hot air
balloon deflated in midair and he and
his companion fell 1,500 feet to their
deaths the crash gave these men the
distinction of becoming some of the
first fatalities of an air crash
number five William Bullock the Webb
rotary press while Richard March ho
invented the rotary printing press in
1843 William Bullock made numerous
additions to it and made it his own this
included automatic paper feeding rather
than laborious paper pushing
unfortunately his additions proved his
demise as he kicked a driving belt onto
a pulley of his Webb rotary press and
got his leg stuck which eventually led
to gangrene he finally died during an
operation to amputate his leg a few days
later dumped oh gosh gorgeous girl
asleep the moral of this story is to
actually take care when fixing your
machine rather than just kicking it and
hoping for the best
number four Thomas Midgley jr. the
pulley system Thomas Midgley jr. was a
renowned chemist and mechanical engineer
perhaps best known for his involvement
with the addition of a compound known as
tetra ethyl lead or te L two gasoline
gasoline powerful stuff modern magic
after a successful career Midgley jr.
was diagnosed with polio myelitis a
disease which left him bedridden and
unable to move as a solution to his
problems he devised a complex pulley
system that would help others lift him
out of bed this genius invention
unfortunately led to his death in 1940
as he was ultimately strangled by its
strings
number three Franz Reichelt the
parachute suit Franz Reichelt was a
pioneer of aviation safety most famous
for his ill-advised jump off Paris’s
Eiffel Tower in order to test his
full-body parachute in 1912 after
numerous unsuccessful tests from his
apartment using a dummy Reichheld
decided to test a parachute he designed
and refined himself and what better way
to do that than jumping from the Eiffel
Tower after multiple attempts to
dissuade him landed on deaf ears a
hesitant Reichheld jumped landed square
on his face on the icy paris ground and
died on the scene even though spectators
rushed him to hospital number 2 Thomas
Andrews jr. the RMS Titanic
while not entirely his fault Andrews
Titanic turned out to be the end of him
and many others on board an Irish ship
builder Andrews was the naval architect
of the ocean liner before it faithfully
struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank into
the Atlantic Ocean
reports stated that Andrews wanted 46
lifeboats instead of the 20 that were on
board as well as watertight bulkheads
but superiors ignored these wishes
unfortunately these turned out to be the
fateful mistakes that drew Titanic into
legend I’m sorry but that didn’t build a
stronger ship young rose before we look
at our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
number one Marie Curie polonium and
radium perhaps the most accomplished
Discoverer on this list Marie Curie was
a pioneer in the field of radioactivity
and is the only scientist in history to
win two Nobel prizes for two separate
Sciences her discovery of polonium and
radium eventually proved to be her
demise however as she died from a
plastic anemia due to her constant
exposure to radiation in 1934 the
negative health effects were simply not
known at the time and the paper is
documenting her work are considered too
radioactive to handle even to this day
do you agree with our list it’s all very
good
what inventor killed by their own
invention did we miss dessert for more
informative top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
with the number of lifeboats times the
capacity you mentioned forgive me but it
seems that there are not enough for
everyone aboard about half actually
these people had ideas that were to die
for welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top ten
inventors killed by their own inventions
sort of like straddling a barbecue with
an explosive device underneath for this
list we’re looking at those innovators
that were killed either directly or
indirectly by their own inventions or
discoveries we are excluding those that
simply died experimenting with others
inventions such as Alexander Bogdanov
who died while trying to perfect and
explain the process of blood
transfusions okay and the holes not
designed to deal with that pressure so
what happened she splits number ten
Sylvester H Roper the Roper steam
velocipede it’s going good
she’s flying we got lots of power 1/4
throttle we’re blasting along here uh-oh
20 miles an hour maybe Warren in Francis
town New Hampshire
Sylvester H Roper was a pioneer when it
came to the subject of Motor Vehicles
and more specifically motorcycles and
automobiles Roper created what is often
considered one of the first motorcycles
the Roper steam velocipede
it was while riding the steam-powered
Land vehicle in 1896 that spectators
noticed Roper wobbling upon it at a
considerable forty miles an hour only
for him to fall off and suffer a head
wound following several laps he was
found dead at the scene with an autopsy
revealing heart failure as the cause of
death though whether his loss of balance
was a catalyst for the stress on his
heart or if his heart failed prior to
the crash is unknown he got a look at a
lot of stuff here because otherwise he
could hurt yourself number nine
Horace Lawson Hundley the hand-cranked
submarine they had all their you know
doubts there was a lot of praying on
everything during the American Civil War
forest loss and Hundley served as a
Confederate marine engineer and he
invented various forms of hand powered
submarines to use in battle against
Union troops unfortunately during a
routine exercise in 1863 one of his
submarines took on too much water and
sank killing all men inside including
Hundley Boat Dobbs and the depths of the
Cooper River it becomes pitch black in
there he can’t find a seat cock turn off
the front hatch waters flowing in the
boat becomes nose-heavy gets stuck in
the bottom of the Cooper River in 32
feet of war this submarine called the HL
Hunley after its inventor was eventually
raised and became the first sub to sink
an enemy vessel in naval history so at
least his death wasn’t completely in
vain number eight Henry Winstanley the
Eddystone lighthouse
what’s that towel it’s an old lighthouse
this English painter and engineer add
such a thing for mechanical and
hydraulic gadgets that most of the
county of Essex knew about it he
indulged in this fascination by ensuring
he was always surrounded by mechanisms
that he designed and constructed and the
Eddystone lighthouse was no exception
after becoming a merchant and suffering
the loss of two ships on the Eddystone
rocks henry Winstanley had the
lighthouse built with lavish decorations
and a glass lantern room in 1696 however
his death is perhaps proof that you must
think before you speak
in 1703 after previously proclaiming his
wish to witness the greatest storm there
ever was from inside of it the great
storm of southern England destroyed the
lighthouse and killed him along with it
number seven max valet the
rocket-powered car automobile inventions
are definitely at the forefront of
accidental deaths taking the lives of
Fred Duesenberg Henry Smolinski Frances
Edgar Stanley and valerian a Bukowski
just to name a few
max Valley a self named valley a
Highland track 7 was the first
successful rocket car to run with liquid
propulsion
unfortunately that liquid was
alcohol-based and less than a month
after his successful Rock 7 run while
making tests for a rocket engine a
canister of it exploded on his workbench
in Berlin valet was killed within
minutes on that day in 1930 today he is
remembered as one of the brilliant
individuals who helped pave the way for
space flight number 6
Jacques watt pilâtre de rozier the hose
yeah balloon
I’ll send you a postcard from paradise
Oh considered one of the first pioneers
of aviation Java swap pilâtre de rozier
was a notable French physics and
chemistry teacher des Rosiers is perhaps
best known as the man who made the first
manned free balloon flight along with
the Maquis daolon unfortunately his
ambition got the best of him and he
crashed while attempting to fly his
hozier balloon across the English
Channel in 1795 the hydrogen hot air
balloon deflated in midair and he and
his companion fell 1,500 feet to their
deaths the crash gave these men the
distinction of becoming some of the
first fatalities of an air crash
number five William Bullock the Webb
rotary press while Richard March ho
invented the rotary printing press in
1843 William Bullock made numerous
additions to it and made it his own this
included automatic paper feeding rather
than laborious paper pushing
unfortunately his additions proved his
demise as he kicked a driving belt onto
a pulley of his Webb rotary press and
got his leg stuck which eventually led
to gangrene he finally died during an
operation to amputate his leg a few days
later dumped oh gosh gorgeous girl
asleep the moral of this story is to
actually take care when fixing your
machine rather than just kicking it and
hoping for the best
number four Thomas Midgley jr. the
pulley system Thomas Midgley jr. was a
renowned chemist and mechanical engineer
perhaps best known for his involvement
with the addition of a compound known as
tetra ethyl lead or te L two gasoline
gasoline powerful stuff modern magic
after a successful career Midgley jr.
was diagnosed with polio myelitis a
disease which left him bedridden and
unable to move as a solution to his
problems he devised a complex pulley
system that would help others lift him
out of bed this genius invention
unfortunately led to his death in 1940
as he was ultimately strangled by its
strings
number three Franz Reichelt the
parachute suit Franz Reichelt was a
pioneer of aviation safety most famous
for his ill-advised jump off Paris’s
Eiffel Tower in order to test his
full-body parachute in 1912 after
numerous unsuccessful tests from his
apartment using a dummy Reichheld
decided to test a parachute he designed
and refined himself and what better way
to do that than jumping from the Eiffel
Tower after multiple attempts to
dissuade him landed on deaf ears a
hesitant Reichheld jumped landed square
on his face on the icy paris ground and
died on the scene even though spectators
rushed him to hospital number 2 Thomas
Andrews jr. the RMS Titanic
while not entirely his fault Andrews
Titanic turned out to be the end of him
and many others on board an Irish ship
builder Andrews was the naval architect
of the ocean liner before it faithfully
struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank into
the Atlantic Ocean
reports stated that Andrews wanted 46
lifeboats instead of the 20 that were on
board as well as watertight bulkheads
but superiors ignored these wishes
unfortunately these turned out to be the
fateful mistakes that drew Titanic into
legend I’m sorry but that didn’t build a
stronger ship young rose before we look
at our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
number one Marie Curie polonium and
radium perhaps the most accomplished
Discoverer on this list Marie Curie was
a pioneer in the field of radioactivity
and is the only scientist in history to
win two Nobel prizes for two separate
Sciences her discovery of polonium and
radium eventually proved to be her
demise however as she died from a
plastic anemia due to her constant
exposure to radiation in 1934 the
negative health effects were simply not
known at the time and the paper is
documenting her work are considered too
radioactive to handle even to this day
do you agree with our list it’s all very
good
what inventor killed by their own
invention did we miss dessert for more
informative top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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