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A collection of intriguing topics and fascinating stories

about the rare, the paranormal, and the strange

Rare Diseases and Unusual Deaths

Volume 1

Uncover the mysteries behind rare medical conditions

and the bizarre cases of unusual deaths

Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.

Revision 6

Foreword

In the past, things like

television,

and words and

ideas like

advertising, capitalism, microwave

and

cancer

all seemed too strange for the ordinary

man.

As man walks towards the future, overloaded with

information, more mysteries have been solved

through the wonders of science. Although some

things remained too odd for science to reproduce

or disprove, man had placed them in the gray

areas between

truth

and

skepticism

and labeled

them with terminologies fit for the modern age.

But the truth is, as long as the strange and

unexplainable cases keep piling up, the more likely

it would seem normal or natural. Answers are

always elusive and far too fewer than questions.

And yet, behind all the wonderful and frightening

phenomena around us, it is possible that what we

call

mysterious

today won’t be too strange

tomorrow.

This book might encourage you to believe or refute

what lies beyond your own understanding.

Nonetheless, I hope it will keep you entertained

and astonished.

The content of this book remains believable for as

long as the sources and/or the references from the

specified sources exist and that the validity of the

information remains unchallenged.

Inventors Killed by own

Inventions

Wikipedia.org

The following pages contain the list of inventors whose deaths were in

some manner caused by the product, process, or procedure that they

have invented or designed.

Automotive



William Nelson

(ca. 1879−1903), a General Electric employee, invented a new way

to motorize bicycles. He then fell off his prototype bike during a test run.

Aviation



Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari

(died ca. 1003–1010), a Muslim Kazakh Turkic

scholar from Farab, attempted to fly using two wooden wings and a rope. He leapt

from the roof of a mosque in Nijabur and fell to his death.

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 were attempting

to cross the English Channel.

Otto Lilienthal

(1848–1896) died the day after crashing one of his hang gliders.

Franz Reichelt

(1879–1912), a tailor, fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel

Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first ever attempt

with the parachute and he had told the authorities in advance that he would test it

first with a dummy.

Aurel Vlaicu

(1882–1913) died when his self-constructed airplane, Vlaicu II, failed

him during an attempt to cross the Carpathian Mountains by air.

Henry Smolinski

(died 1973) was killed during a test flight of the AVE Mizar, a flying

car based on the Ford Pinto and the sole product of the company he founded.

Michael Dacre

(died 2009, age 53) died after testing his flying taxi device designed

to accommodate fast and affordable travel among nearby cities.



Industrial



William Bullock

(1813–1867) invented the web rotary printing press. Several years

after its invention, his foot was crushed while installing a new machine in Philadelphia.

The crushed foot developed gangrene and Bullock died during the amputation.

Maritime



Horace Lawson Hunley

(died 1863, age 40), Confederate marine engineer and

inventor of the first combat submarine, CSS Hunley, died during a trial of his vessel.

During a routine exercise of the submarine, which had already sunk twice previously,

Hunley took command. After failing to resurface, Hunley and the seven other crew

members drowned.

Medical



Thomas Midgley, Jr.

(1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who

contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate

system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the

eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this

device and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is more famous — and

infamous — for developing not only the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, but

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