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List of inventors killed by their own inventions

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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...

M'lord 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

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.

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