10 Inventors Who Hated Their Own Creations

You have to have a certain amount of sympathy for Zuckerman and Conron. If you think the best of people the negatives of your ideas may never even come up in development. Mikhail Kalashnikov, on the other hand, has very little excuse for how his creation was used.

Originally created as a “weapon of defence, not one of offence” (because guns are universally split into those two categories) it remains the go to weapon of choice around the world. Popular due to its cheap production cost and having the reliability of Old Faithful (a very reliable geyser) the AK-47 is definitely the most recognisable weapon on earth, even having a cameo on the national flag of Mozambique.

Working for the Russian army, who were somewhat jealous of fighting a fully automatic German arsenal, Kalashnikov designed and built the rifle then stamped it with its birth year 1947 and thus the AK-47 was born. Kalashnikov holds a special place in this list for being both proud of his craftsmanship and troubled on how his, to reiterate, fully automatic killing machine was used.

He blamed the Nazis for the idea, he blamed the governments and politicians of the world for its implementation; but only seemed to have expressed regret for his creation near the end of his life when he wrote to the leader of the Russian Orthodox church asking: "I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I... a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths? The longer I live, the more this question drills itself into my brain and the more I wonder why the Lord allowed man to have the devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression."