8 Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions
Otto Lilienthal.Photo:ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Wikipedia’s record places Rush and theTitandirectly under naval architect Thomas Andrews and his maritime invention: theRMSTitanic. The shipbuilder died along with 1,500 other passengers when the boat crashed and sank to the seafloor in 1912. Unlike the debris of the boat he designed, Andrews' body was never found. Read more about Stockton Rush, Thomas Andrews and other tragic figures who add a disturbing layer to the phrase “meet your maker....