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William Huskisson

Huskisson was a British member of the parliament. He was run down by a train during the opening of the first railway in 1830.

Jean- Baptiste Lully

This Italian- French composer died in 1687 after accidently stabbing his foot with a stick while beating time. The short conductor’s baton came into use soon afterwards.

Thomas Midgely

Midgely was an American inventor who was strangled in 1944 by a machine he had invented to help him move after contracting polio. He invented three products that have since been found to be environmentally harmful: lead in petrol, CFCs in fridges and aerosols, and the insecticide DDT.

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