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He began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive. [16] One had only to mail order his instructional booklet World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets (in which he outlined the "Dance of Death") to also receive a free Black Dragon Fighting Society membership card. These comic book ads account for much of Count Dante's ...
The death of Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who jumped off the Eiffel Tower expecting his contraption to act as a parachute. Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (died c. 1003–1010), a Kazakh Turkic scholar from Farab, attempted to fly using two wooden wings and a rope. He leapt from the roof of a mosque in Nishapur and fell to his death. [5]
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.
World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...
Nakamatsu is a prolific inventor, and he even claims to hold the world record for number of more than 3,200 inventions. [5] While his claim to a "world record" has been described as a record for patents by several media articles, [ 6 ] [ 1 ] several other sources do not list Nakamatsu among the world's most prolific inventors [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ...
Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Russia – Mi-series helicopter aircraft, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter) Alexander Miles (1838–1918), U.S. – system for automatically opening and closing elevator doors; David L. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time ...
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [30]]. 95–4,000+ [31] [32] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Benjamin Boardley (March 1830 – 1904) was an American engineer and inventor.. Benjamin's correct surname was Boardley, [1] [2] [3] but since 1859 when the African Repository published an article wrongly spelling Benjamin's surname as Bradley, authors have written about him with the incorrect surname.