how I got onto this subject,
it is about a forward thinking inventor who decided a great way to travel was to put an aeroplane engine on top of a train, called the Aerowagon, it was the invention of Valerian Ivanovich Abakovsky the high-speed Aerowagon train engine was designed to carry Soviet officials to and from
Moscow, on July 24th 1921 Abakovsky's invention worked
fine on the outgoing leg of the test run but crashed during its return to the
capital city, killing 6 of the 22 people on-board, including Abakovsky,
although just twenty-five years old, Abakovsky possessed the
type of radical forward-thinking which the Bolsheviks admired, unfortunately, Abakovsky's inexperience
showed through in the Aerowagon's design, by all accounts the vehicle was loud,
unstable, and frightening, all six passengers were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, marking the last mass burial to take place there, today, Abakovsky and his Aerowagon are mere
footnotes in history, but the young Latvian-born communist did obtain one
unusual place in history, as one of a handful of inventors who were killed by
their own inventions, Abakovsky was just
26 years old, when he died, and that got me thinking, no not his age, but how
many other inventors have been killed by their own inventions?
so grab a cup of coffee and have a look and read here about 19 other inventors whose inventions got away from them and killed the inventor.
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