Scientists are always trying to make innovation to advance the world, but unfortunately there are people who use it for something bad for himself. Below is a list of important discoveries and are intended for good but end up with a disaster at the expense of the environment and human life.
Scientists Discovery Technology is Misused :
1. GASOLINE LEADED
Thomas Midgley discovered the CFC Freon as a refrigerant that is safe to replace toxic materials such as ammonia coolant in wide use. However, the results from this material apparently widespread damage to the ozone layer. Other notable idea is to add tetraethyl lead to gasoline causes worldwide health issues and deaths from lead poisoning. He was regarded as a man who "most impact on the atmosphere than any other person in the history of the earth."
2. GAS SARIN
Dr. Gerhard Schrader was a German chemist specializing in the discovery of new insecticides, hoping to make progress for the fight against hunger in the world. However, Dr. Schrader famous for the discovery of harmful toxic gases such as sarin and tabun, and because of this, sometimes he was called "the father of poison gas."
3. NUCLEAR FUSION
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was the first to discover that solid hydrogen nuclei can be reacted with each other. This fusion reaction is the basis of the hydrogen bomb. Ten years later, American scientist Edward Teller explore Oliphant discovery to make. However, Oliphant who just want to know the structure of the nucleus of the atom does not expect its use in the future.
4. ROCKETS
Despite his passion and dream is to use a rocket astronomy in exploring outer space, the work of Wernher von Braun used to make the Nazi V2 rockets that killed 7250 soldiers and civilians and an estimated 20,000 workers during construction. Then, in the U.S. he made a series of ICBM rocket capable of carrying a nuclear explosive device at the same time many are carried around the world before he saved his reputation by making the Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon.
5. CONCENTRATION CAMP
Frederick Roberts, Lord Roberts first made the refugee camps to provide protection to civilians who attacked families who left their homes for various reasons in the Boer War. However, when Lord Kitchener replaces Roberts as the top commander in South Africa in 1900, the British army introduced new tactics in order to destroy guerrilla attacks and the current growth of civilians.
Kitchener initiated plans to "rule in a series of guerrilla attacks gerkan systematic, organized like a sporting shoot, with success defined with a bag of dead, captured and wounded, and to sweep the country clean of anything that could give attackers the food to the guerrillas, including women and children. "
The strategy succeeded in capturing 28,000 Boer prisoners of war and 25,630 others sunk into the sea. Most of the rest of the people in the camp of local Boer women and children. More than 26,000 women and children died in this concentration camp.
6. TNT
Joseph Wilbrand was a German chemist who discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863 that is used as a yellow dye. But it was not until 1902 that the realized power of TNT explosives and used as weapons extensively by both sides during World War I and World War II. Until now, even the TNT was used in the military.
7. GATLING GUN
Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun after he noticed the American death due to disease rather than gunshots. In 1877, he wrote: "It occurred to me that if I could find a tool (weapon) that the rapidity of fire, enable one man can fight a thousand people, it would menurangi number of troops needed and I feel feel it would be easier to prepare food for the soldiers. "Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by ruthlessly mowing natives with primitive weapons.
8. AGENT ORANGE
Arthur Galston makes a chemical that can accelerate the growth of soybeans and allows it to be grown in areas with short seasons. Unfortunately, at high concentrations it would defoliate soybeans and function of this material is then substituted into herbicides (weeds eradication) Galston despite concerns about its effects on humans. It was supplied to the U.S. government in orange striped barrels and 77 million liters of Agent Orange sprayed in Vietnam that led to 400,000 deaths and disabilities by 500,000 birth defects.
9. ZYKLON B
Fritz Haber was Jewish scientist who won the Nobel prize for creating a low nitrogen fertilizer and chemical weapons for Germany in World War I. Insecticide its findings are used to store rice fumigation is responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million people. Zyklon B is a method of execution in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Fritz Haber was Jewish scientist who won the Nobel prize for creating a low nitrogen fertilizer and chemical weapons for Germany in World War I. Insecticide its findings are used to store rice fumigation is responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million people. Zyklon B is a method of execution in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
