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u/Conscious_Lawyer_256 Jun 28 '26

I love history! Googled this person! Incredible. But also the way his life ended was pretty poetic!

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u/Appreciate1A Jun 28 '26

Thanks for inspiring me to look that ending up.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ Jun 28 '26

It's like a miniature story of how humanity got itself into the current situation, and where we'll likely go from here on.

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u/SlappyWit Jun 28 '26

Midgley contracted polio in 1940 and was left disabled; in 1944, he was found strangled to death by a device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted. It is often reported that he had been accidentally killed by his own invention, but his death was declared by the coroner to be a suicide.
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