Top 10 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions #1

1) Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. She and her husband, Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. Together, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and she received another one, for Chemistry, in 1911. Her work with radioactive materials doomed her, however. She died of a blood disease in 1934.

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2) Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King (1848-1896)

Otto Lilienthal

Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established previously by Sir George Cayley. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favourably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical. He died of injuries sustained when his glider stalled and he was unable to regain control; falling from about 50 ft, he fractured his neck.

Nikola Tesla Missing File

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Nikola Tesla was the famous greatest genius in the 20th century. He was born in July of 1856 in Croatia.He came to the United States in 1884, and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the "Tesla coil, "is still used in radio technology today. He invented many famous and influential works such as Rotating Magnetic Field ,Ac Motor,alternating currents and Radio. He also  claimed to invented the death ray which he called teleforce that could kill pigeons from four miles away and could kill a mouse enclosed in a "thick walled metal chamber"