Inventors – enthusiastic people.
Some are willing to put life to create something revolutionary. Constant experimentation and super – not the highest price for the opportunity to develop the ideas they possessed. Sometimes it happens that the geniuses become victims of the resulting realities.
1. The inventor of gunpowder, Berthold Schwarz
The invention of the Franciscan monk Berthold Schwarz has really changed the course of history: in 1330 (in some sources, this date differs slightly) he invented gunpowder. Historians are still arguing about whether Schwartz real figure, or invention attributed to a fictional alchemist.
Information about the discoverer of gunpowder reached our days from the guide to pyrotechnics began 1400 years, which are preserved in later copies. It contained information about what a certain alchemist monk named Berthold conducting the experiments, accidentally got a powder, mixing the three ingredients – sulphur, charcoal and saltpeter. To check out the properties of the resulting powder, he set it on fire, and he left the cell. Soon there was a mighty explosion, and when he returned, he found that the pestle, which he pounding the powder, sticking out of the beams.
It became clear that the invented substance has a destructive force, and the German king Wenceslas IV, found out about it and fearing Berthold, ordered the execution of the inventor, having put on a barrel of gunpowder, which was set on fire.
2. Athenian sculptor-flayer Perili
Inventing instruments of torture is, of course, people with troubled psyche. Often their ideas are sophisticated, and the way the implementation is horrendous. Purely “famous” for the fact that the order of the ruler Phalaris produced copper ox designed for executions.
The condemned was placed in a hollow body of a bull, and under the belly of the animal is bred fire. The victim felt terrible torments, because, in fact, was in the hot tank. Awesome the effect is intensified by the fact that on the face of the ox was made of the nostrils of which were steaming, as if the animal was angry in earnest. And from the womb – could hear the frightening moans that Isaias turned into a roar.
Fate was not merciful to the inventor of this deadly trap: Phalaris ordered to try out the invention at the very Purile, so he felt full of flour, which sentenced thousands of people in the future. However, fate has punished himself tyrant: he was soon deposed and ended his life, suffering the same tortures in the womb of a bull.
3. Alexander Bogdanov – a victim of his own ideas
Alexander Bogdanov is an outstanding scientist, whose fate in the Soviet Union was tragic. He diligently worked in various fields of science, studied medicine, Economics and philosophy. However, it was not spared the fate of the exiled prisoner: prison in Moscow, the exile in Vologda, where he had to work in a mental hospital. After serving his sentence, went to Switzerland and return to Russia was only able after the Amnesty, timed to the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. The first world war was as a combat doctor.
Despite the hard work, Alexander Bogdanov never ceased to experiment in the field of medicine. He developed the theory that blood transfusion from a younger person to run the body rejuvenation processes. The experiments the scientist had put on himself, after 11 blood transfusions, his body gave in the rejection process, and that death was inevitable.
4. Aurel Vlaicu – Romanian aviation pioneer
Aurel Vlaicu became famous as one of the most famous aircraft designers, he built the plane model which had all chances to become the best. In 1912 he presented his creation to the competition, which took place in the framework of the week of aviation. The event was held near Vienna, the pilot showed a machine that was simple and accurate management, for which he received the Grand prize and a cash reward. However, Vlaicu not long basked in the glory: in the next year, going to be a risky flight over the Carpathians, the pilot fell to his death.
5. Franz Reichelt, a tailor, telling him to sew a parachute
While Franz Reichelt was engaged in the tailoring, he was very loved among the fashionistas and dandies. However, once he heard about the contest on the best model of the parachute, for the victory which promised a fabulous sum of money, he could not resist… stupid About the demise of the tailor, who decided to invent the parachute, I still remember the Parisians, as to test his invention, he went to… the Eiffel tower!
