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List of inventors killed by their own inventions
- mr3martinis 7y agoSurprised Thomas Midgley isn’t on there. He contributed to developing leaded gasoline and CFCs, and was strangled to death by one of his inventions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
- dang 7y agoPosted many times. Some past threads for the curious: 2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800243 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3064098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3064098 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211574 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=List%20of%20inventors%20killed%20by%20their%20own%20inventions&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=List%20of%20inventors%20killed...