List of inventors killed by their own inventions

[luu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions

[dang]

Posted many times. Some past threads for the curious:

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800243

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3064098

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211574

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=List%20of%20inventors%20killed...

[arcboii92 → dang]

For me it appeared right next to the same post from 10 hours earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112207

https://i.imgur.com/6sPa85y.png

[HNLurker2 → dang]

M'lord dang

[mr3martinis]

Surprised Thomas Midgley isn’t on there. He contributed to developing leaded gasoline and CFCs, and was strangled to death by one of his inventions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.