They Sacrificed Themselves: Inventors Who Lost Their Lives Trying to Make the World a Better Place We owe a lot to scientists and inventors who worked day and night to take humanity one step forward and lost their lives while realizing their inventions. 1.Horace Hunley Hunley, who we can remember as the inventor of early submarines, has carried out a lot of work in this field. Years later, important techniques were developed using his methods, but he died after an accident during a submarine exploration drive… 2. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, the world’s first ‘ballooner’, lost his life in an accident while using one of the Rozière balloons that bear his name and will make life easier in the coming years. 3. Sylvester H. Roper Roper may not be used today, but he is the inventor of the steam-powered bicycle. While creating these bicycles, he suffers a heart attack and has an accident during the experiment phase. This accident cost him his life, b...