List of inventors killed by their own invention

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This is a list of people whose deaths were in some manner caused by or directly related to a product, process, procedure, or other technological innovation that they invented or designed.

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Ill-fated inventors

Automotive

Aviation

The death of Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who jumped off the Eiffel Tower expect­ing his con­trap­tion to act as a parachute .

Chemistry

Industrial

Maritime

Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863 by Conrad Wise Chapman (1864) Conrad Wise Chapman - Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863.jpg
Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863 by Conrad Wise Chapman (1864)

Medical

Physics

Richmann and his engraver during the electrocution in St. Petersburg Richmanns Tod 1753.jpg
Richmann and his engraver during the electrocution in St. Petersburg

Publicity and entertainment

Railway

Valerian Abakovsky's Aerowagon, a propeller-driven wooden railcar which crashed in 1921, killing Abakovsky and six others Aerovagon Abakovskogo (cropped).jpg
Valerian Abakovsky's Aerowagon, a propeller-driven wooden railcar which crashed in 1921, killing Abakovsky and six others

Rocketry

Perillos being pushed into his brazen bull Pierre Woeiriot Phalaris.jpg
Perillos being pushed into his brazen bull

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