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The death of Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who jumped off the Eiffel Tower expecting his contraption to act as a parachute. Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (died c. 1003–1010), a Kazakh Turkic scholar from Farab, attempted to fly using two wooden wings and a rope. He leapt from the roof of a mosque in Nishapur and fell to his death. [5]
Pages in category "Inventors killed by their own invention" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Lloyd Trammell (born 1953), U.S. – inventor in the field of dimensional sound processing Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), UK – high-pressure steam engine , first full-scale steam locomotive Franc Trkman (1903–1978), Slovenia – electrical switches, accessories for opening windows
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Public Domain. Henry Ford is known for many things — the most prominent being mass-manufactured cars and paying workers respectable wages. But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ...
William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Cool Whip; Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism. Alexander Mitscherlich (1836–1918), German chemist; Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy
American inventor and aeronautics pioneer [13] Henry Beachell: 1906–2006: 100: American developer of "miracle rice" [14] Wilfried de Beauclair: 1912–2020: 108: Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist [15] Arnold Orville Beckman: 1900–2004: 104: American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments [16] Bei Shizhang ...