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被自己发明杀死的发明家
Inventors killed by their own inventions
2009 — 2021,它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页(≥ 50 分)的那次投稿,空心点是没冲上去的投稿,点越大分数越高。
导读
这个维基百科条目汇总了因自己的发明而丧生的发明家,从古代传说中的铜牛到热气球、降落伞和输血实验等真实案例。每个条目简述人物生平、发明和致命事故,读来既离奇又带黑色幽默。
为什么经久不衰:它用一份名单把创造、冒险与自负的代价浓缩成可反复翻阅的警世故事,案例离奇却真实,所以每次上首页都值得再读。
HN 评论精选
米奇利因辅助起身的装置丧命,却更以铅汽油和CFC遗祸闻名,充满讽刺。
哇,小托马斯·米奇利死于他自己发明的、用来把他从床上吊起来的精巧装置;但他在此之前已经把铅加进汽油并制造了氯氟烃。他要是把这两件事的顺序倒过来,就能省下我们好多麻烦。
bogle查看英文原文
Wow, Thomas Midgley, Jr. died from his own Heath Robinson contraption for lifting him out of bed but not before he put lead into petrol and created CFCs. Should have done those the other way around and saved us all a whole lot of grief.
铜牛传说让发明者自食其果,是黑色幽默式的历史注脚。
我在维基百科上见过的最奇特的条目之一是铜牛:发明者向统治者推销这个主意,结果统治者因这种东西竟然存在而反感,反而把发明者扔了进去。
jihadjihad查看英文原文
One of the strangest articles I've come across on Wikipedia is about the brazen bull[0], whereby the inventor of said bull pitches the idea to the ruler of the land, only to be thrown in it himself after the ruler is repulsed that such a thing should exist. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
氢气气球下用明火加热,事故几乎注定;早期航空冒险的荒诞。
让-弗朗索瓦·皮拉特尔·德·罗齐耶是已知首位空难死者:1785年6月15日,他乘坐的罗齐耶式气球在尝试飞越英吉利海峡时坠毁。要说这主意有多糟:气球里是氢气,下面的舱室用明火加热空气——明火,就在氢气容器下方。后来用氦气的气球更成功,因为飞行员不用抛压舱物或携带足够燃料就能控制浮力。但谁会把氢气球放在明火上还指望好运?
JasonFruit查看英文原文
> Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier was the first known fatality in an air crash when his Rozière balloon crashed on 15 June 1785 while he and Pierre Romain attempted to cross the English Channel. Let's be very clear about how bad an idea this was: it was a balloon filled with hydrogen, with a chamber beneath it filled with hot air warmed by an open fire. An open fire. Beneath a container of hydrogen. Later ones filled with helium were more successful, as they allow the balloonist to control buoyancy without dropping ballast or carrying enough fuel to maintain lift sufficient for the entire craft. But who sticks a hydrogen balloon over an open fire and expects good things?
输血返老还童的实践早在百年前就有,并以悲剧收场。
我原以为年轻人给老亿万富翁输血以返老还童是现代想法。亚历山大·波格丹诺夫……经过11次输血后,他满意地提到视力改善、停止秃顶等积极症状。他的革命同志列昂尼德·克拉辛写信给妻子说“波格丹诺夫手术后似乎年轻了7岁,不,10岁”……但后来一次输血要了他的命,因为他接受了患疟疾和结核病学生的血液。
aitchnyu查看英文原文
I thought the idea of young people giving blood to rejuvenate old billionaires was modern. > Alexander Bogdanov (22 August 1873 – 7 April 1928)...After undergoing 11 blood transfusions, he remarked with satisfaction the improvement of his eyesight, suspension of balding, and other positive symptoms. His fellow revolutionary Leonid Krasin wrote to his wife that "Bogdanov seems to have become 7, no, 10 years younger after the operation"... But a later transfusion cost him his life, when he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov
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