6 Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own Inventions

With the Titan Sub tragedy... raise that number to seven.

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.

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

With your warranted emphasis on Curie, I couldn't help but remember a similar and much less known individual who also suffered from radiation exposure from her critical scientific research: Rosalind Franklin. Her story deserves the same tellings as Curies, but does not receive it.

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.

I worked in a factory that used roller printing. These things are still killing and maiming people. One "funny" 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't know, we haven't caught him yet.

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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I love this channel. I don't know exactly what it is, but this is a feelgood series for me. Even when it is often times about potentially terrible things, the way it's presented lifts my spirits. Thanks, Joe.

The clip from the movie "Top Secret" of the Pinto blowing up is pure gold. I got a good chuckle out of that. One of my all time favorite comedies.

Hey we can add one more to this list now!!! 😂😂

more about the pinto: the reason it always exploded was because the main designer was given half the amount of time to design it as normal, so he placed the gas tank behind the rear axle, inbetween the rear wheels. theres a reason no car company ever did that before or ever since.

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

I absolutely love that you combine science and history. My two favorite subjects. And not only science and history but interesting science and history! Keep up the great work!

There is now a seventh person for this list

I gotta give Joe credit for being so balanced with his delivery of his humour and the involvement of numerous deaths in this video

The moment I heard about the notebooks I knew it was Marie Curie. For me she's up there with Einstein and Hawking. Granted the things she discovered would've been discovered by someone else, so goes the world - but, who knows how far behind we'd be or if we would've known about the health consequences so directly. Plus I wouldn't have an example for my daughter who loves science. Here's this lady who figured out quite possibly one of the most important discoveries that's allowed for the modern world to exist. Due not being careful though, she paid with her life and her husband's life (if I remember correctly).

Of all the information here, I think that momentary still of David Carradine was absolutely perfect. No clue how accurate the implication is, but it certainly got a hearty chuckle out of me once I paused at an appropriate moment and realized whom I was seeing. That said, RIP Marie Curie. One of the greatest humans to have ever lived.

During my recent RV trip, I attended two marine warfare museums and each had life-sized reproductions of the Hunley. What struck me was the size of the hatches. They were barely large enough to fit through - like extend your arms above and then down to hoist yourself out with assistance from above or below narrow. The crew never stood a chance.

Marie Curies biography was the first book I ever did a book report on, In about 6th grade, it was also one of the very first books I ever read that I couldn’t put down because I was so interested in it, Curie always went on to inspire me from then on