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Francis Edgar Stanley (1849–1918) was killed while driving a Stanley Steamer automobile. He drove his car into a woodpile while attempting to avoid farm wagons travelling side by side on the road. [3] Fred Duesenberg (1876–1932) was killed in a high-speed road accident in a Duesenberg automobile. [4]
Pages in category "Inventors killed by their own invention" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
You can thank risk-taking inventors for their numerous contributions to modern living. But behind many of these inventions were fantastic flops — things that either worked and didn't make ...
Soucek in the barrel in which he went over Niagara Falls. Karel Soucek (April 19, 1947 – January 20, 1985; né Karel Souček) was a Czech professional stuntman living in Canada who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1984.
Pages in category "Lists of inventors" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... List of inventors killed by their own invention; L.
Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt [1] or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born [2] French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.
"Inventors indirectly killed by their inventions" wouldn't even be strictly accurate in the case of either Perillos or Garros, the former of whom was a victim of the capricious cruelty of a bloodthirsty tyrant, and the latter of whom was a victim of one of the most savage, violent conflicts the world had ever known up to that point in time ...