Ideas that kill - inventors killed by their own inventions
Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist with two Nobel prizes, was especially known for radioactivity activity. She is also responsible for the discovery of two chmice elements, polonium and radium.
The author of the Radioactivity Theory, Marie Curie discovered, unknowingly, its fatal effects on health. She died on July 4, 1934, because of aplastic anemia caused by exposure to radiation.
Valerian Abakovski was a Russian inventor who found the end when his invention, the Aerowagon high-speed train, dared to kill yet another five people. The airplane and propeller train was designed to transport Soviet officials from and to Moscow.
Although the test started well, returning to the capital gave rise to the derailing that killed, among others, the inventor of only 26 years.
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Of all the inventors killed by their own ideas, maybe Perillos in Athens is the only one who should have been punished for his invention. He was a bronze craftsman who created a torture and painful device for criminals called the Bronze Taurus.
The detainees, locked inside the device, were burned to death, the device being designed so that the scream of pain sounds like a bull.
Perlus, with his hatred, showed it to Phalaris, a tyrant in Sicily. The latter, however, used Bronze Taurus to torture the inventor himself, who either ended up burned in the device or thrown from a rock by the Lord's people, and history was not clear about it.
