7 Inventors Killed By Their Inventions

Mother Nature Network:

The life of an inventor is not an easy one. First you have to come up with a good idea that solves a problem in a way that no one has thought of before, and then you need to design and engineer your idea to take it from theory to reality. The very nature of invention means that inventors are continuously pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. This drive to discover the next Big Thing has been a boon to humanity and has given us inventions like the steam engine, the automobile and the personal computer. It's the major reason why we're still not huddled in caves fighting off wolves and cowering at the crack of thunder.

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Comments

[masterinventor001embarq]

06:28 PM on 01/21/2012

The worlds only 4 inventors of significance were all but one murdered for there inventions so far that is and congress has def ears when it comes to protecting them in patent legislation.

[timbeaux]

03:42 PM on 01/21/2012

No matter how loosely the HuffPo editors want to use language, Marie Curie did not "invent" radium. She discovered it. This is about a third-grade mistake.

[Genders]

03:00 PM on 01/21/2012

Inventing can be hard dangerous work.

[gunnerfan5]

09:24 AM on 01/21/2012

Who writes these pieces? There are 4 people who have won two Nobel prizes, not 2.

[GirlUsingBrain]

02:36 PM on 01/20/2012

Marie Curie was not an inventor. She was a scientist.

[MrBIgp]

06:09 PM on 01/20/2012

In addition, radiation is not an invention. Radium is not an invention. And while it is likely that her aplastic anemia was caused by radiation, no one can know for certain.

[tc399]

09:15 PM on 01/20/2012

It could have been caused by splinters in the newfangled invention, toilet paper.

[Genders]

02:59 PM on 01/21/2012

Wow, people exposed, people die of radiation related disease, but you always want to claim it's something else.