Wikipedia's list of inventors killed by their own inventions keeps growing

Wikipedia maintains a list of inventors killed by their own inventions. Franz Reichelt, a tailor, designed a wearable parachute coat. In 1912, he tested it by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. It did not deploy. Marie Curie discovered radium and died of aplastic anemia from years of radiation exposure — her papers are still too radioactive to handle without protection. — Read the rest The post Wikipedia's list of inventors killed by their own inventions keeps growing appeared first on Boing Boing.

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