ChampakDas Posted December 3, 2012 Report Posted December 3, 2012 [b] No 10. Cowper Phipps Coles[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/10b-3/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/10b-550x371.jpg[/img][/url] This poor fella working for the Royal Navy invented a rotating turret for ships during the Crimean War. After his design proving successful, he set patented it and set about building his own ship using this revolutionary design. However, due to several complications his ship HMS Captain required unusually dangerous modifications which contributed the ships ultimate demise in September of 1870 as it capsized owing to its large weight, taking with it Cowper Phipps Coles himself and 500 other crew members. [b] No 9. Donald Campbell[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/9-70/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/9-550x273.jpg[/img][/url] British car and motorboat racer Donald Campbell was a sped freak to be exact. He broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s. To satisfy his seemingly ever growing appetite for speed he decided to try for another water speed record in 1966; a target of 300 mph. For this prominently dangerous feat he invented a lighter and more powerful engine for his boat Bluebird K7. He took the first run and instead of waiting for the wash of his first run to subside, Campbell decided to make a return run immediately in search for the record and apparently crossed the 300 mph, infact he peaked at 320 mph. Unfortunately though, 320 mph was the point when his boat disintegrated owing to his earlier impatience and a point that marked the end of Campbell himself. [color=#000000][left][background=rgb(255, 255, 255)] [b] No 8. William Bullock[/b] [img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/8-550x224.jpg[/img] William Bullock, an American inventor whose 1863 invention of the rotary printing press helped revolutionize the printing industry due to its great speed and efficiency, died while trying to repair one of his own printing presses. His foot got his foot crushed by the machines when tried to kick in a pulley into place. His foot later became gangrenous and he died during an operation to amputate his foot. [b] No 7. Karel Soucek[/b] [img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/7a-550x258.jpg[/img] Karel Soucek was a Canadian stuntman famous for inventing the “capsule”. He also rode down the Niagara Falls in his capsule. Although the fall wasn’t perfect, he sustained many injuries, he still managed to convince a company to finance his barrel drop from the top of the Houston Astrodome in Texas. A special artificial waterfall was created from the top of the giant 180 feet structure, with a plunge pit at the bottom. Unfortunately, the stunt went wrong and Soucek hit the rim of the pool instead of the centre, causing the capsule to rupture and he got severely injured which resulted in his death the next day. [b] No 6. J. G. Parry-Thomas[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/6-74/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6-550x226.jpg[/img][/url] Aspiring to break the land speed record set by Malcolm Campbell, John Godfrey Parry-Thomas set about creating a car to do realize his dream. He was a Welsh motor-racing driver and engineer. Although he successfully broke the record on 27th of April 1926, he set a new record of 170 mph the very next day. But, as it goes, Malcolm Campbell broke this record an year after. J. G. Parry-Thomas set of to reclaim the record on his modified car named Babs but was partially decapitated by the snapping of the exposed chains off his modified car and instantly died on the scene. [b] No 5. Franz Reichelt[/b] [center][url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/5a-21/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/5a.jpg[/img][/url][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/5.jpg[/img][/center] Actually a tailor, Franz Reichelt invented or designed a strange overcoat/parachute hybrid that he claimed could sail its wearer gently to the ground or even to fly. His first experiment as it turned out was a failure and unfortunately he himself was the test subject, so he died by falling straight into the ground from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower. [b] No 4. Otto Lilienthal[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/4a-19/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/4a-550x235.jpg[/img][/url] [left]Otto Lilienthal was infact the first person to make repeated successful gliding flights. He was the man that gave substance to the idea of flying machines, which, before his experiments was a mere fantasy. Due to his success and popularity he became known as the Glider King. He died on the 10th of August 1896 a day after his failed flight in which he fell 17 meters. He broke his spine and died as a result, his final words were, “Small sacrifices must be made!” Here is great 3D piece on the king:[/left] [size=6][b]No 3. Alexander Bogdanov[/b][/size] [size=6][b][url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/3-71/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/3.jpg[/img][/url][/b][/size] Alexander Bogdanov was noted Russian who excelled as a physician, a philosopher, an economist, a science fiction writer and a revolutionary. Of his many scientific experiments was the idea of possible rejuvenation through blood transfusion. Having given blood transfusions to many notable people, including Lenin’s sister, Bogdanov decided to give himself a transfusion of blood from one of his patients who unfortunately suffered from malaria and tuberculosis. He died from the infections shortly after. [color=#000000][left][background=rgb(255, 255, 255)] [b] No 2. Marie Curie[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/pd2952401/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/21.jpg[/img][/url] Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist who discovered radioactive elements including radium and polonium. She also put forward the theory of radioactivity and the isolation of radioactive isotopes. She, along with her husband, received the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their great work but unfortunately for reasons now obvious to us, she died in 1934 from aplastic anaemia, contracted from exposure to radioactive materials. [b] No 1. Thomas Midgley[/b] [url="http://realitypod.com/2011/03/10-inventors-killed-by-their-own-inventions/1-68/"][img]http://realitypod.toponday.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1.jpg[/img][/url] Thomas Midgley was an American chemist who invented both leaded petrol and CFCs and was notoriously known as ‘the one human responsible for more deaths than any other in history’. Ironically, his own invention infected him and was left disabled in his bed due to lead poisoning and polio at the age of 51. Still he didn’t stop inventing and designed a complicated system of strings and pulleys on his bed so that he could lift himself up when needed. And as you might have guessed this bed, his invention, was the cause of his eventual death at the age of 55 when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of his bed and strangulated. [/background][/left][/color][/background][/left][/color]
manmadudhu Posted December 3, 2012 Report Posted December 3, 2012 manchi dialogue undhi indulo...... [b]small sacrifices must be made[/b] [b]nice post thou CD[/b]
NewPeanut Posted December 3, 2012 Report Posted December 3, 2012 Nice Post...[b]Marie Curie[/b][b] was the only person I really know!! [/b]
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peru_edaite_enti Posted December 3, 2012 Report Posted December 3, 2012 [quote name='CHANAKYA' timestamp='1354557675' post='1302888937'] Science needs sacrifice... - ekkado chadivaa... Gud post... [/quote] nenu spidy movies lo inna dialogue
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