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Inventive Deaths: How to Die in a Better Mousetrap

Inventive Deaths: How to Die in a Better Mousetrap Inventors often seem a hapless lot. If they aren’t being blown up by their own patented explosive shells, they hang themselves from their own perpetual motion machines or are found wandering the streets of great cities, hopelessly insane when their creations fail to make them rich….A look at obscure inventors—mostly Americans–who died at the hands of their better mousetraps.