Inventors Who Maybe Should’ve Read The Manual Of Their Own Invention That Ended Up Killing Them

Horace Lawson Hunley

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Hunley developed early hand-powered submarines, the most famous of which was posthumously named for him, the CSS H.L Hunley. After a few failed submarine tests that would end up just sinking to the bottom of Mobile Bay, Alabama, he finally thought he had the golden goose of submarines, so he assembled a crew.

Five men would die on the first run when the submarine was swamped by the wake of a passing ship. On October 15, 1863, they assembled another crew. Hunley was not apart of the crew but decided to join anyway. This time, all eight crew members were killed, including Hunley.