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
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