6 Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own Inventions

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  @doxinator3560 · 3 years ago

  I was expecting a mention of Jimi Heselden, who died driving his Segway off a cliff.  But I did some homework. He didn't invent the Segway. He just owned the company.

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• CA

  @Cavemanner · 1 year ago (edited)

  One of the things that makes Marie Curie a GOAT is the fact that she realized that the material she was handling was making her sick, but insisted on continuing to work with it because she was the foremost expert and wanted to make as much progress as possible before it killed her so others wouldn't have to die to do the research.

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  @andycockrum1212 · 3 years ago

  There is now a seventh person for this list

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  @Myrtle2911 · 3 years ago

  The fact that Marie Curie handled radioactive material and lived to be 66 is rather remarkable! Many people who worked with radioactive substances like her were not so fortunate.

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  @Yora21 · 3 years ago

  He wasn&apos;t just the single human being who did the greatest harm to the atmosphere.<br>He was the single organism that had the greatest impact on the atmosphere.

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  @TheGrinningViking · 3 years ago

  Madame Curie may not have invented radiation, but she invented ways to detect it. She was perhaps no engineer, but I think being a chemist and physicist was impressive enough.

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  @simplethings3730 · 3 years ago

  I worked in a factory that used roller printing. These things are still killing and maiming people. One &quot;funny&quot; incident was when a guy ran into our office and said he needed the keys to the truck to drive a guy to the hospital who had gotten his hand caught in the rollers. As he ran out the door we yelled how bad was he hurt. The guy said we don&apos;t know, we haven&apos;t caught him yet.

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  @KatharineOsborne · 3 years ago

  As someone with a bit of knowledge of costume history, even though Blanchard lost his trousers, his junk was likely still covered. At the time men’s shirts acted as underwear. They were made of linen or cotton which absorbed sweat and could be bleached in the cleaning processes. Shirts (and for women, chemises) were frequently changed and cleaned (everyday) to reduce the need for laundering outer garments which helped maintain them for longer. Anyway, shirts were long and were wrapped between the legs to serve the same function as modern underwear (you can see this in a dressing scene in 2020’s Emma movie). Given the length of the shirt, Blanchard would have had his modesty covered on arrival.

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  @flapjack413 · 3 years ago

  And now we can add Stockton Rush to this list.

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  @DanielleWhite · 3 years ago

  Growing up on a dairy farm I came to know a lot of farmers who had various injuries from trying to effect a repair with the machine running. I always made sure to shut everything down and engage all safety lockouts (e.g. for hydraulic lift components) which often angered my father because of the perceived extra time

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  @purpleheart334 · 3 years ago

  As a Transformers fan I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the inclusion of Astrotrain in this video.

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  @magorzataslezak3447 · 1 year ago

  Her name was Skłodowska-Curie! I know she is widly known as Marie Curie but it&apos;s a bummer since she kept her maiden name for a reason

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