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The man who invented what is often considered to be 'the most painful torture device in history' was the first victim of his cruel creation
The man who invented what is often considered to be 'the most painful torture device in history' was the first victim of his cruel creation. History is strewn with examples of horribly painful ways for a person to die and even scientists have weighed in on some of the most unpleasant ways to go out. However, there's absolutely nobody disputing that one of the most awful fates that could befall a person was to be locked inside the Brazen Bull, an ancient device used to torture and execute people. Created in the 6th century BC by a Greek inventor, the torture device was a hollow sculpture of a bull made out of bronze with a trapdoor fitted into it and a set of pipes near the mouth. The idea behind it was that a person would be locked inside the Brazen Bull and have a fire lit beneath them, cooking them alive while the pipes transformed the sound of their agonising screams into bellowing bull noises. The supposed creator of this awful torture device was a man na