List of inventors killed by their own inventions
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#25ZQQ)
Show here: "Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who attempted to use this contraption as a parachute. Reichelt died after he jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing his invention, which failed to operate as expected."
This Wikipedia article lists other inventors who were killed by their own inventions.
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