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Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

• Thomas Andrews (RMS Titanic, passenger liner)
• Alexander Bogdanov (blood transfusion)
• William Bullock (rotary printing press)
• Cowper Phipps Coles (HMS Captain, turret ship)
• Marie Curie (radioactivity)
• Ismail ibn Hammad al-Javhari (wooden wings)
• Horace Lawson Hunley (H. L. Hunley, submarine)
• Otto Lilienthal (hang glider)
• Thomas Midgley, Jr. (pulley-operated mechanical bed)
• William Nelson (bicycle motor)
• J. G. Parry-Thomas (Babs, race car)
• Franz Reichelt (coat parachute)
• Henry Smolinski (AVE Mizer, flying car prototype)
• Aurel Vlaicu (Vlaicu II, airplane)
• Henry Winstanley (Eddystone Lighthouse)