5 inventors who lived to regret their inventions
Not many inventors who shaped the modern world with the execution of their ideas, died happy with the end result.
(Web Desk) - A list of inventors who with their creations changed the world forever, but lived to regret it:
Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane didn’t envision its use as a weapon and the role his creation played in both World Wars horrified him. Photo: Wright State University Library
Mikahail Kalashnikov, the creator of AK-47, having seen 250,000 people die from AK-47 wounds annually, before his death wrote saying he felt responsible. Photo: Mikahail Kalashinkov’s Official Website
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, later created the Peace Prize that bears his name out of guilt for having formulated a deadly weapon earlier. Photo: NobelPrize.org
Philo Farnsworth, the father of electronic television – that was meant to be an educational tool, later saw his invention as a time-wasting monster. Photo: Philo Farnsworth’s Biographical Website
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist behind the research and design of the first atomic bomb speaking to Harry Truman confessed, "Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands". Photo: University of California’s Archives
