Inventors Who Maybe Should’ve Read The Manual Of Their Own Invention That Ended Up Killing Them
Thomas Midgley Jr.
Midgley was an American mechanical and chemical engineer and played a major role in developing leaded gasoline and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons. However, it wasn’t these inventions that would end up killing him. He was diagnosed with polio at the age of 51.
He created an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed because the disease left him severely disabled. He got entangled in the ropes of this device and died by strangulation at the age of 55.
