inventors

Science can be dangerous, and the best people to tell you about it would be this list of unlucky inventors. Too bad they can’t, because their genius couldn’t keep them from dying as a result of their very own creations. Here are 10 inventors killed by their own inventions. Franz Reichelt – 1912 The scary part of the inventing process is sometimes you have to put your body on the line to prove that your invention works, even if it doesn’t. Austrian-born tailor Franz Reichelt believed that he was on to something with the “coat parachute,” a flight suit that would convert into a ...