10 More Inventors Who Hated Their Own Creations

This one may come as a shocker, but one half of the duo who created powered flight, Orville Wright, came to hate the invention that made him famous. When he and his brother Wilbur threw together their first airplane and flew it at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, they had ideas far different than what came to be for the airplane.

It was believed that the airplane would connect the world in ways naval travel had failed to achieve. With people able to travel quickly from one place to another, Wright thought there would be no need for conflict. The world would be connected in a way it never had before, but Orville wasn't a military man — he ran a bicycle shop.

Almost immediately, the military saw the benefit of aerial reconnaissance and attack, which led to the development of fighters and eventually bombers. A machine thought to end all wars only made them deadlier, especially after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in the closing days of WWII.

Shortly after the war, Wright had a few words about the invention he came to regret. He wrote, "I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it."