Inventions, killing their creators

Scientists over the years working on their new inventions. To some of them manage to immortalize his name in the history of mankind, but there are those who are willing to sacrifice their lives in the name of science.

William Bullock invented the roll rotary printing machine,
completely changed the scope of printing.
In 1867, his foot inadvertently got caught in the car and split.
He died a week after the amputation.





Wilm Nelson - 24-year-old inventor who worked in the company "General Electric".
He came up with a motor bike. Nelson died in 1903, his creation obkatyvaya.



Henry Smolinski crashed during a test flight AVE MIZAR - flying car.
It was the only thing that the company was trying to make.



Horace Lawson Hunley - the designer of submarines during the
The American Civil War.
Unfortunately, none of the attempts were not successful.
In 1863, the third submarine sank, too, lost the whole team, including the Hunley.



Alexander Bogdanov sought to prove that blood transfusions
lies the secret of anti-aging.
He poured the blood 11 times. After 12 experiments in 1928
scientist died from the infection.



Harry Daglian Jr. and Louis Slotin. Both physicists worked
to invent a nuclear bomb in Los Alamos
and died of radiation exposure in 1945 and 1946, respectively.



Karel Soucek - one of the brave souls who have successfully conquered Niagara
Falls in a barrel, which he had constructed.
In 1985 a barrel, with Karel is in it, crashed during
One of the tricks in Houston.



Max Valle - a pioneer of rocket building.
He invented the liquid-fuel rocket engine,
which exploded during a test rocket car,
killing its creator.



Thomas Andrews was the chief designer of the Titanic.
He was on board the ship in the fateful night in 1912.