The Dhaka Times Desk Science and scientists are closely related to each other. Without scientists, we would not know about this science today. There are many inventions around us that lost their lives while testing their inventors during the initial stages of invention. Today we will introduce those inventors along with their inventions to our readers.
1. Franz Reich
Franz Reich pioneered the parachute of today. He was a tailor. One day he sewed some of his clothes and claimed that he could fly in the sky with them. So he jumped from the Eiffel Tower with his flying machine made of cloth. But unfortunately his flight suit did not work and he died. Since then he is known as Flying Tailor around the world.
2. Max Weiler
Max is the pioneer of today's biofuels. He was the first to show that it is possible to drive with alcohol. He claims that a car he invented is a rocket speed car. Then organized an exhibition of it. But at that exhibition his car exploded and he died.
3. Lilienthal
Lilienthal is called the Glider King. He was the first inventor of the glider we see in the world today. But the sad thing is that he died in an accident while flying in the sky with his invented glider.
4. Sylvester H. Roper
Roper was the inventor of the steam-powered bicycle. This again became the cause of his death. He died in a steam bicycle accident.
5. Thomas Andrews
Do you remember the Titanic? It is impossible to sink such a huge ship. Such was the demand of the makers. But it met with misfortune on its maiden voyage. The chief builder of that ship was Thomas Andrews. Along with the ship, he also suffered misfortune.
6. James Fix
Jogging and hiking that we see in today's world. James Fix is the exponent of that jogging and hiking. But interestingly, this jogging and hiking led to his death. He died of fatal heart disease.
7. Horace Lawson Henley
The inventor of the submarine invention went to test underwater with his submarine when it was destroyed by the pressure of the water and he died.
8. John Francis Pilate the Rosier
One remembers Julvern's The Mysterious Island where a group of people take refuge on an island in a balloon. Francis Pilate thought of making such a balloon to go around the world. But alas, he died mid-flight.
9. Henry Floss
Floss died from lack of pure oxygen. Floss was trying to invent a device where people could use this device to re-create oxygen from the carbon dioxide they exhaled.
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