List of inventors killed by their own invention

This is a list of people whose deaths were in some manner caused by or directly related to a product, process, procedure, or other technological innovation that they invented or designed.

The death of Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who jumped off the Eiffel Tower expect­ing his con­trap­tion to act as a parachute .
Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863 by Conrad Wise Chapman (1864)
Richmann and his engraver during the electrocution in St. Petersburg
Valerian Abakovsky 's Aerowagon , a propeller-driven wooden railcar which crashed in 1921, killing Abakovsky and six others
Perillos being pushed into his brazen bull