Inventors Who Maybe Should’ve Read The Manual Of Their Own Invention That Ended Up Killing Them
Max Valier
Valier was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Spaceflight Society that would bring together many of the minds that would make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. He was one of the earliest humans to foresee potential in the rockets.
He created rocket-powered cars and even one liquid propulsion-based rocket car. In 1930, at the tender age of 35, he died when there was an explosion in his experimental setup. Without any safety measure, he was sitting in front of a combustion chamber testing a combination of kerosene mixed with water and oxygen. After two successful trials, his adrenaline rush motivated him to go for a third and literally the last trial.
