Consider yourself lucky if you are reading this, you most likely not to have lived in a society with extreme judgements, sentences, and punishments. Back in the good old days if you did something wrong, for example stole a goat, chicken, Adultery, you were pretty much assured being handed a death sentence. In those days there was no hanging around on Death Row, contemplating the errors of your ways whilst waiting for some form of humane, painless death. Executions in the ancient history seems to be so barbaric and devices used were built with careful engineering to push the guilty to feel extreme and prolonged pain before death. The forms of execution listed below really are so barbaric that you might question your faith in human nature. Blowing from the gun. With the invention of the cannon came this wonderfully imaginative way of executing enemy combatants. The basic method was to tie the unfortunate victim to the barrel of a cannon and fire it. Horrific as this sounds I imagine it w...
Louis Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of the motion-picture camera. However, in September 1890, he mysteriously vanished while on his way to New York to unveil his invention at his own exhibition.
Louis Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of the motion-picture camera. However, in September 1890, he mysteriously vanished while on his way to New York to unveil his invention at his own exhibition.
The day before the exhibition, Le Prince's brother, Albert, dropped him off at the train station. Le Prince was carrying everything he needed to present the exhibit, including his suitcase with his valuable patents.
What's strange about this is that no one on the train remembers seeing Le Prince.
When he failed to show up at his own exhibit, the police became involved and began their investigation by questioning other passengers on the train. Not one of them could say they had seen him.
The fact that there were other inventors who had hoped to be the first to show the moving picture to the world fueled speculation that one of his fellow inventors was responsible for his disappearance.
This theory was further fanned by Le Prince's wife, Elizabeth, who publicly stated that she believed it to be true.
She claimed that Thomas Edison, in particular, was known to be highly competitive.
Despite many theories surrounding his disappearance, Le Prince was never found, nor was his body.
The day before the exhibition, Le Prince's brother, Albert, dropped him off at the train station. Le Prince was carrying everything he needed to present the exhibit, including his suitcase with his valuable patents.
What's strange about this is that no one on the train remembers seeing Le Prince.
When he failed to show up at his own exhibit, the police became involved and began their investigation by questioning other passengers on the train. Not one of them could say they had seen him.
The fact that there were other inventors who had hoped to be the first to show the moving picture to the world fueled speculation that one of his fellow inventors was responsible for his disappearance.
This theory was further fanned by Le Prince's wife, Elizabeth, who publicly stated that she believed it to be true.
She claimed that Thomas Edison, in particular, was known to be highly competitive.
Despite many theories surrounding his disappearance, Le Prince was never found, nor was his body.
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