Stockton Rush - Ceo oceangate
Rush and four others on board the Titan submersible went missing on June 18 while on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic. The loss of the sub launched a search-and-rescue mission that involved the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, and the "Titanic" director, James Cameron. The search lasted five days until Coast Guard officials announced on June 22 that the submersible had imploded 1,600 feet from the Titanic shipwreck.
Rush and four others on board the Titan submersible went missing on June 18 while on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic. The loss of the sub launched a search-and-rescue mission that involved the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, and the "Titanic" director, James Cameron. The search lasted five days until Coast Guard officials announced on June 22 that the submersible had imploded 1,600 feet from the Titanic shipwreck.
William Bullock - rotary printer inventor
Bullock was a newspaper editor who revolutionized printing by making improvements to the rotary printing press.One day, while installing a printing press, Bullock's leg got caught in the machine. The press crushed his foot, resulting in a gangrene infection that killed him days later.
Conflicting records said that Bullock kicked the machine while trying to install the press and, in doing so, got his foot and leg caught, which led to the accident.
Robert Cocking - Parachute designer
Cocking, a watercolor painter who was fascinated with air travel, designed a parachute in 1837 that he debuted to the public at Vauxhall Gardens in London.On its maiden voyage, Cocking detached his device from a hot air balloon and promptly fell several hundred feet to his death.In one account of the incident, Cocking was found in a field by laborers and was alive for a few moments after reaching the ground.
Franz Reichelt - Parachuting pioneer
Believing that a suitably high test platform would prove his invention's efficacy, Reichelt repeatedly petitioned the Parisian Prefecture of Police for permission to conduct a test from the Eiffel Tower. He finally received permission in 1912, but when he arrived at the tower on 4 February he made it clear that he intended to jump personally rather than conduct an experiment with dummies. Despite attempts to dissuade him, he jumped from the first platform of the tower wearing his invention. The parachute failed to deploy and he plummeted 57 metres (187 ft) to his death.
Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake - Flying car
Smolinski and Blake attempted to make the world's first flying car, the AVE Mizar. Despite some early successes, the two engineers died while conducting a test-flight.
Despite initial problems, Smolinski and Blake had small successes in previous tests. On September 11, 1973, the inventors began a test-flight with the Mizar from Ventura County airport in California. Shortly after they took off, black smoke could be seen from the car.It crashed shortly afterward, killing Smolinski and Blake.
Thomas Midgley Jr. - Leaded gasoline
Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and the synthetic substance used in air conditioning and refrigeration, contracted polio, and died in a contraption he made to hoist himself in and out of bed.
The public was told that his death was an accident, but privately it was ruled a suicide, according to The New York Times Magazine. Either way, it was something of the lifelong inventor's creation that contributed to his death.
Luis Jimenez - Sculptor blucifer
Jimenez, the sculptor behind the work known as "Blucifer" at the Denver International Airport, died when pieces of his sculpture fell on him.Jimenez was contracted by the Denver International Airport to make the sculpture and had been working on it for nearly a decade when he died.The 32-foot-tall, 9,000-pound sculpture came loose from a hoist while being moved and pinned Jimenez to a steel support beam. The collision severed an artery in Jimenez's leg, and he died before he arrived at a hospital.
Marie Curie - Discovered radium and polonium
Curie died from aplastic pernicious anemia 31 years after winning her first Nobel Prize. The disease was a result of her work with radioactive material.Curie did not "invent" radium or polonium, but she discovered them with her husband, Pierre Curie, and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Thomas Andrews - Shipbuilder who designed the Titanic
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