When Sir Ernest Rutherford first split the atom he soon came to realise the power he’d unleashed on the world and began to regret it, becoming something of a campaigner against nuclear technology later in life.
I ahve just read too that Walter H. Brattain, who invented the transistor, later apologised to the world and expressed his great regret, because it had enabled electric guitars, synthesisers, power amplifiers and all sorts of loud music. Personally, I don’t hold it against him.
I wondered if there were other inventors or discoverers who went on leter to publically regret their work and what it had been used for. Any ideas?
By: laviticus - 23rd September 2005 at 21:07
The inventors of the following..
cigarettes, millions of lives and that cough on a morning. 🙁
remote controls for the tv,you can never find em. :confused:
jam sandwiches,personel trauma involving said butty and a felt pen! 😮
paint,after hearing the hall could do with a lick for the thirtieth time. :rolleyes:
dave………..
By: barrythemod - 23rd September 2005 at 11:51
Oppenheimer and “The Bomb” springs to mind.
And Thomas Crapper,bet he regretted his surname.
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