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In this list, the inventor of a hand-controlled submarine died due to sinking, and he invented even during a parachute test from the Eiffel Tower to death.

In this list, the inventor of a hand-controlled submarine died due to sinking, and he invented even during a parachute test from the Eiffel Tower to death.

The inventions contribute to changing human life. However, many of their owners have paid the price of their own lives in trials or in accidental situations.

1. Ly Tu

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Ly Tu was a prime minister under Qin Shihuang. He was a great contributor to the Qin Shihuang's unification of the vassals, making China a feudal state exercising its right and consistency in writing, measurement and thought.

Ly Tu is the one who proposed the "five-figure" death penalty for criminal offenders. According to the comment of Suji Tian, "five figures" consist of tightening the legs, cutting hands, cutting the nose, cutting the penis and cutting the head. Later, Li Y was rebellious. He and his son suffered from this cruel punishment. In addition, he was also troubled by the tribe, leading his head in front of the city gate. When Ly died, Ly Tu was about 60 years old.

2. Henry Winstanley

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Henry Winstanley (March 31, 1644 - November 27, 1973) is an English engineer who built the Eddystone Lighthouse.

Winstanley believed in the power of the lighthouse he invented. The lighthouse was built in 1696. During the horrifying storm of 1703, he went to the lighthouse to repair some of the failures. Suddenly, a great storm collapsed the lighthouse, buried his life. of Winstanley in its own work.

3. Horace Hunley

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During the civil war in America, submarine technology was very limited. At that time, engineer Horace Hunley invented the first hand-controlled submarine in the world.

Horace Lawson Hunley (born June 20, 1823) in Tennessee. On October 15, 1863, although not on the crew list, Hunley decided to join the submarine. During that time, the ship sank, Hunley and seven other sailors were buried at the bottom of the sea. The ship was then picked up and repaired and brought the name of HL Hunley master to commemorate him.

4. William Bullock

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William Bullock (1813 April 12, 1867) was an American inventor. In 1863, he invented a rotary printer. This machine was very useful at that time because of its fast and convenient speed. Unfortunately, four years after the invention of the rotary printer, when he was testing a new machine in Philadelphia, he got stuck in the machine. This foot was then necrotic and caused him to die.

5. William Nelson

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William Nelson is an electric worker in Schenectady, New York (USA). In 1903, he invented a motor-mounted bicycle. At that time he was 24 years old. In the first test, he took the car up the hill, fell and died shortly after.

6. Franz Reichelt

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Frantz Reichelt (1879 - February 4, 1912) was an Austrian-Austrian tailor. He was the inventor of the umbrella. In 1912, during a test he had just designed, he jumped down from the Eiffel Tower and died.

Although many friends and relatives advised him not to risk, Frantz Reichelt decided to jump from the Eiffel Tower. The parachute does not operate at will and crashed into the floor at the foot of the tower. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died.

7. Thomas Midgley Jr.

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Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 - November 2, 1944) was an American chemist and engineer. As a chemist, he has a lot of success and dedication. In 1944, he was elected president of the American Chemical Society.

In 1940, at the age of 51, he became paralyzed and became disabled. Difficulties in living prompted him to invent longitudinal wires and lines so that relatives could lift him out of bed. However, it was this "biological child" that caused his death once he was entangled in a rope and squeezed to death. He died at age 55.

8. Michael Dacre

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The Jetpod was stabbed in Malaysia

Michael Dacre is an English pilot. Dacre was the one who created the flying taxi named Jetpod. In a 2009 trial in Malaysia, an 8-seat plane crashed in Taiping, 300 km from Kuala Lumpur and its owner died at the age of 53.

Update 18 December 2018
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