Inventions to Deathtraps: Creations That Devoured Its Creators


Valerian Abakovsky

Valerian Ivanovich Abakovskyis best remembered as the inventor of the Aerowagon, which is an experimental high-speed railcar fitted with an aero engine and propeller traction. It was originally intended to ferry Soviet officials from one place to another at high speeds. On 24 July 1921, a group of government officials led by Fyodor Sergeyev took the Aerowagon from Moscow to the Tula coal mines to test it. Abakovsky was also on board. Although they successfully arrived in Tula, on the return route to Moscow, his creation derailed at high speed and killed everyone on board.

Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanovwas a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity.

In 1924, Bogdanov started his blood transfusion experiments, apparently hoping to achieve eternal youth or at least partial rejuvenation. After undergoing 11 blood transfusions, he remarked with satisfaction on the improvement of his eyesight, suspension of balding, and other positive symptoms. But a later transfusion when he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis cost him his life.

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