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9 Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions

Inventing can be kind of a dangerous business—as these pioneers show.

When most of us think of “inventors,” we’re probably thinking about folks like the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, or Thomas Edison—folks who changed the world by creating something new and lived to tell the tale. What gets talked about less frequently are the folks that aren’t so lucky: the people that tried creating futuristic machines and, uh, ended up becoming victims to those machines in the process.

Here’s a look at some of the more grisly examples.

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