Tesla: Genius Engineer and Tireless Inventor FULL SPECIAL | American Experience | PBS America 

My great grand mammy Koonta says Tesla was a black man .

I have deleted my comment sorry I miss worded the quote slightly.

Yes, there seems to be a bit of Tesla bashing and complete ignorance of his complete transformation of electric power generation with his generators and motors (still used today) and as the grandfather of alternating current.

​@@FrancisMaxinoHe didn't invent the generators and he didn't invent the motors.

@@FrancisMaxino The reason for putting Tesla down is fan-boy misinformation. He was not the grandfather of AC.

We owe him nothing! There are 100s of MILLION men on earth who are living without electricity AT ALL! But that can't class them as sub-humans. They OWE TESLA/EDISON/westinghouse/jpmorgan NOTHING!

With the exception of the AC motor I don't see anything Tesla did as speeding up several inevitable developments. He may even have handicapped the progress of AC transmission by his lack of understanding of the benefit of 3-phase electricity, ironically unlike Westinghouse or overseas companies.

Alternating current, Tesla transformer, neon lighting, electric logic circuit, radio, wireless transmission,wireless control...

@@aleksandarlazarevic1354 We all have a need to make heros. But Tesla was not an Einstein. Tesla studied Alternating Current at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, where he dropped out and did not qualify. In the USA, as an technician engineer he followed the latest scientific developments in Europe and demonstrated many. Nothing wrong in that. Tesla popularised the HF coil to generate HV, he did not invent it. Tesla did not invent the neon light, his contribution was to create advertising lettering. Remote control was also demonstrated by other radio enthusiasts by ringing a bell. His claim to fame was his enthusiasm, forsite and showmanship and of course, the induction motor.

@@bobdeverell when you already mentioned Einstein, Tesla's contribution to humanity is incomparably greater than Einstein's.Tesla created or advanced more useful patents than all other inventors combined,while on the other hand Einstein's work is absolutely useless in a practical sense.people sent the first artificial satellite and a man into space using Newton's science with Einstein's you can go to the store to buy popcorn and ewen fod that you don't need it.he is also the father of computer hardware. A logic circuit is an electronic circuit composed of switching elements and has at least one input and at least one output. Circuits like this are used to perform calculations in Boolean algebra. Logic circuits can be constructed from valves, relays, diodes or optical elements. Nikola Tesla first applied for patents for the electromechanical AND (AND) logic circuit in 1899. Tesla has its own unit in the international system T , which indicates the amount of magnetic induction per square meter.in short, the man who invented the 20th.

My grandpa was born in 1898. He was an MD and patented nothing like 98.99% of humans... Thank you grandpa Julia Roberts. ... Brigitte

"He designed the system of allowing electricity to reach the top of high storey apartments" There is no need to design a separate system for such a purpose. The same mains power electrical cables that branch from one building to another can simply be branched multiple times at the base of an apartment building as if they were simply a neighborhood of separate buildings/houses at ground level instead. AC electrical power can already travel hundreds of miles without drastic losses in efficiency. A few hundred meters in branching distance within an apartment building to wire up every node is nothing special compared to that feat.

Tesla was my great grandfather

Smiljan.

You are just showing, that you understand neither Tesla nor wireless internet.

@@Mr-wv1tu true...

Agreed. Tesla was an avid reader of the latest electrical experiments. He imported and popularised AC in the USA. He did not invent it.

The electric light bulb with a metal thread was invented by the Croatian Franjo Hanaman, Tesla is also Croatian

Not even that. He paid for continuous research that produced a lightbulb filament that would finally be practical in applications lasting longer than a candle while producing bright, white light. He was there, but so were several other engineers that he had on the payroll. Due to his employment contracts it is probably impossible to say exactly what he invented personally and what his employees invented while working on his premises.

@@vg7759 "with a metal thread" is a very ambiguous statement. "was invented by the Croatian Franjo Hanaman, Tesla is also Croatian" Ah yes - the olde nationalist view of things. If you like that tack I've got a better one. Italian professor Galileo Ferraris was the first to invent a working polyphase AC motor before Tesla claimed to have invented it and then lost it in a fire. After Ferraris died unrecognized due to Tesla having Westinghouse at his back in the US patent dispute the Italian inventor Marconi evened the score and took the win for the first working practical radio while Tesla continued to fail at making Wardenclyffe viable. Marconi's victory combined with Tesla's complete lack of return for JP Morgan's investment was basically the end of his professional career. I'd say that's karmic justice even if most people don't know who Ferraris is today.

Sorry @yootuber2009, you're repeating a myth. Tesla did not invent AC, its properties were well known and demonstrated overseas. The enabling technology that made AC usable was the invention of the transformer. That was not Tesla's idea and without the transformer, DC would have prevailed at that time. Westinghouse saw that far more clearly than Tesla.

Tesla popularised AC, he did not invent it. That honour does to others. In reality he probably delayed the introduction and deployment of modern 3-phase distribution, because he didn't realise its main benefit.

Same here 😂 I was building Tesla coils all around the base. It was the best defense method. Greetings from Serbia.

Affirmative 😂

@@glezgaboy9390 Very well

Just for the record, he was also proud American. :-)

Welcome to our planet.

What inventions? sounds like you've got a very vivid imagination.

Yes!😂😂

Lmfao, I honestly don't know what world you idiots live in.

Tesla's lack of understanding of basic physics led him down the garden path on several occasions.

Edison was invested in direct current, which is just as important as AC.

@@chalkandcheese1868 niccoli was interested in all that wireless tech too.

@@RAPINCITE lmfao, go to bed kid

@@chalkandcheese1868I watch this content to get sleep, you silly rabbit.

@@RAPINCITE precious

Edison was the Businessman and a bloody good one. Today like yesterday the visionary is usually forgotten as the businessman prospers. Hence the need for lawyers.

Calm down kid, you're reading too much into it.

So What ..... ?!!😮

@@Panos125S They mention over 20 times that he is Serbian, he was not.

@@tomapc Croatia Takes The Glory 😄🤭

@@Panos125S I am not Cratian, but i did live there a lot, probably over 4 years in total. Magnificent seaside there...

@@tomapc I Know What You Mean , Have A Nice Day 👋

Did you watch the documentary? he was rich and famous in his day and got recognition for what he achieved.

Er no, Tesla was one of dozens and dozens of scientists and engineers that contributed to the modern system.

Nikola*

7:33 🙄

Correct, and a certain Michael Faraday stands head and shoulders above them all, which is hilarious considering modern day Tesla fanboys have probably never heard of him.

No dumbass, Edison and his team (under Edisons direction) came up with the first workable electric lightbulb. So he DOES deserve the credit.

Einstein said Tesla was the most intelligent man he’s ever known even when Einstein was asked what’s it like being the smartest man alive he answered I don’t know ask Nicola Tesla.

And hes ideas would have been taught in schools if he was American. Fact. 99 percent of the western world as heard of Einstein and the other 1 percent as heard of Tesla. Sick world.

No, he was crazy only.

​@@russcooke5671He never said anything of the sort.

@@chalkandcheese1868 how do you know. Mmm