Why This Secret Invention Drove Tesla Insane 

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How many Edison’s does it take to screw in a light bulb? Non, Tesla will do it and Edison will take credit

Edison was just a businessman and took other peoples work, But Tesla had the brains to experiment and make things.

Nikola Tesla deserves being taught about more in school. He was one of the most talented minds. Edison did alot to slander Tesla..

I was taught very little about Tesla at school. Knowing what I’ve learnt about him since, I’m actually quite annoyed he was overlooked

You forgot to mention that in Edison's later years: he also became somewhat unhinged, believing he was being haunted by the spirits of the animals that he electrocuted (including an elephant).

Question posed to Albert Einstein: "How does it feel to be the smartest man on earth?" Einstein: "I don't know, you'll have to ask Nikola Tesla"

As most geniuses, Tesla was underrated during his time, mainly because nobody can understand his genius. Good thing he is now known, and a consolation for him that all he was, was not in vain, like the life he lived and sadly how he died.

If you go read enough history Tesla invented the radio first. In modern times it's commonly been re-accredited to him. And he had millions of other inventions that were not discussing here including the Tesla valve which is being reinvestigated today for water and fluid flow and it's proving out to be better than anything we've designed in the computer age.

Tesla was abused his whole life and died in poverty. His life is one of the saddest stories ever told. We just lost one of the greatest minds ever because people suck, being genius is not enough. :/

Tesla wanted to give humanity free electricity forever. Edison just wanted to get rich.

tesla had the best line that i think refered to tesla. "let them have today, the future is mine." tesla was the fucking man

I absolutely loved David Bowie's portrayal of Tesla in the movie The Prestige. RIP, David.

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla

Little disappointed that the video didn't go more into teslas history. But seeing the comments here and how a lot of people see Tesla as the genius that he was, gives me hope.

But did Edison actually invent those two legs on hinges on the back of a chair to prevent it from falling backwards, or was that Homer Simpson after all?

"Dangerous and burned out in a few minutes"... Excellent job 👊😎.

Can you imagine if Edison would have paid Tesla the 50k and continued to work together. The technology advancements would have been insane.

Thank god you mentioned Westinghouse, nobody ever gives him as much credit as the other two, because quite frankly Tesla couldn’t have afforded to do any of his work without him.

I always love your scientific explanations. The ability to sum up the major points without innundating the viewer with massive amounts of information cannot be understated. Massive kudos sir

Incidentally, the dual-phase AC systems found in most of the Americas, Japan and Italy are modifications of Edison’s DC system of positive, negative and neutral lines. This setup is also used for higher voltage transmission globally, as it doubles the total voltage while keeping the line voltage difference from 0 smaller, increasing safety.

Since Thoughty2 really weakly covered Teslas Inventions here are a few: 1. The Tesla Coil 2. the Magnifying Transmitter 3. the Tesla Turbine 4. The Shadowgraph 5. The Radio 6. The Neon Lamp 7. Niagara Falls Transformer House 7. Radio Controlled Boat Totally he has around 196 patents across the world. Man was a true genius. It's not even FAIR to put him at the same category as Edison. Edison was a business man and Tesla was an inventor!

Nikola Tesla wrote an amazing autobiography titled My Inventions, it’s a short book but it’s witty and worth the read. I adore Tesla and all of his strange and quirky ways. People often make fun of him for his love of pigeons and one in particular which he nursed back to health. He said he loved her as a wife probably because he was a lonely man who never found love or married, which is kinda sad but not nearly as sad as his psychopathic rival who electrocuted cats, dogs, horses and an elephant in public only to prove himself wrong with D/C. Fuck Edison, team Tesla forever!!!

"Pivot! PivOT!! PIVOT!!!" Hands down, all-time funniest scene from FRIENDS!

Still doing the velvety smooth sponsor ad transitions I see. You got me. I got really interested in that security system and then I'm like, "wait a minute. They may have invented some of the building blocks of the security system we see but this isn't directly about Tesla or Edison!"

There is no comparison, Tesla was in a league of his own.

In a word! TESLA No contest, not even close

Edison is the perfect example of how history is often distorted by the victors telling the story. Dude was a hack in terms of inventing. His only brilliance was in business and marketing.

"Died alone and penniless" What a sad end for a man that had one of the largest contribution for the developing world

The answer to who was smarter is clear. Anyone who can see light coming out of a pigeons eyes is clearly a man of rarest vision. Mark me down for Tesla.

I don't care if they stole my ideas, I'm concerned that they don't have their own. NT

My understanding is that Eddison employed people to research stuff and then claimed the inventions as his own because of the way he had written the employment contract. I believe he even requested Tesla help him with a project ,promising to pay him a large sum and then when Tesla produced the gadget, laughed at him and told him he had been joking while still walking away with the design.

"Simplysafe, gives me peace of mind..." Me : Nawh bud, I got guns in my house and I am a light sleeper I'm good.

Being an insomniac, and batshit crazy... Tesla gives me hope.

"You did not steal from me , you stole me from mankind" - Tesla (on Epic rap battles )

As a croatian, I can confirm all of us go from mad to insane, multiple times in our lives, and we all have a thing for pidgeons: trying to step on them and hear the satisfying sound of a ribcage being crushed

"AssISTants" Hat off, Thoughty2. You're a master of puns.

An interviewer once asked Einstein “How does it feel to be the smartest man in the world?” Einstein replies “I don’t know ask Nikola Tesla.”

Edison is probably the most overrated person in history. He wasn't inventor. He was businessman abusing inventors and taking credit. That's literally it. We should just stop talking about him.

"not a fire hydrant or a nutcase" made m giggle a little too much

Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison have a lot in common .... getting credit for something they didn't create

Are we even discussing this ?

I'm subscribed to this channel for a long time now.. I'm from Serbia, and I had only one American in my house as a guest.. And he never heard about Tesla.. I'm electrical engineer.. My high school was named Nikola Tesla in Belgrade.. I remember when I was in elementary school.. Going to National competition in physics.. I've got a book about Nikola Tesla.. The point is.. How the F... You guys don't appreciate Tesla?? And don't learn in school about this dude? And Einstein is the greatest mind in history?! Tesla Is above everyone!

"... just like Marx's ideas, Swan's bulb was dangerous..." Perfect! 😂

I feel like using a Vulcan when he says Klingon is a geek trap.... and I fell for it.

Tesla was a genius by all means, edison while smart had nothing on teslas genius just like how tesla had nothing on edisons business sense.

Don't forget that Tesla's 3 phase AC system worked from the box. And it still works in it's original design .Modern tech has brought a lot of improvements (remote controlling, higher transport voltages,more efficient transformers etc), but around the world you still have AC generators 100 years old connected to the grid. As for AC motor , Tesla didn't invent the first one.He invented 3 phase asynchronous motor , one that is still used in it's original design. That motor was and is the workhorse of the industry. Tesla was a nutty personality , but his intentions were good and with vision of improving the life of humanity , not his own pocket.

The most influential inventions of all time ... Guns. Smart phones. Vehicles. Oh yeah electricity lol

> Insults in Klingon > Shows a Vulcan

Let's be clear here, Edison's so-called inventions were few and far between. He was fortunate enough to start that laboratory and hire young brilliant people who actually did the inventions that working under Edison was able to tale the patent and most of the credit. On the other hand, Tesla found himself unselfishly working for Edison improving many of the companies inventions and other cases thefts, and came up with many of his own inventions. The fact that Edison is only being called out now is that he was a cruel man and used 100's of brilliant people's ideas as his own. The additional fact that he electrocuted 100's of animals in public to try a scare the world away from alternating current should have had him hung in the city square. The light bulb that Telsa developed for his Westinghouse generators were far superior to the DC lightbulbs that Edison was producing for even a 6-year-old could make those today. Tesla was especially gifted and if he did not have to deal with mobster Edison and his goons doing everything to get rid of this country could have had a great many developments. In short, Edison was lying, stealing mob, scumbag.

Tesla developed the AC systems and that was a stroke of genius. AC can be transmitted with little limitations of long distance. But later in life Tesla developed a fixation to deliver power to customer wirelessly. In his view, permanent lightinings were traversing the sky delivering power. This was the madness that destroyed him, as it alienated his financial supporter. Great video, thank you 42...

"He was shit at Quidditch" line just killed me XD

Love this Guy... Hey thankz for real entertainment bub...Peace, Power, and Madd Love to you! Been watching forever!!!

Edison: Steve Jobs. Nikola Tesla: Nikola Tesla.

"... _and, founder of the company that would later become_ *General Electric* ." Actually, that claim requires a bit of qualifying. You see, on the day when that new name was declared, the board of directors simultaneously *threw Edison out of* HIS OWN COMPANY.

so Edison loved trains, Tesla loved pigeons.

2:47 definitely thought he was racking up a line there

Hang on, so you give Edison credit for the first commercially viable incandescent bulb, but Tesla merely improved things other people did a little. Because someone already built an AC generator. Generator. Not motor, generator. Not really commercially viable, because there were no useful AC motors at that time, or indeed at all until Nikola Tesla invented the multi-phase AC motor. Tesla's invention of the multi-phase AC motor made the modern world possible!

Another aspect of Edison's legacy is the existence of Hollywood as the centre of movie production. Originally based in the New York area, movie companies would often have their equipment destroyed by goon squads sent out by Edison, who felt he should be getting royalties for every movie made with "his" camera invention, even though he only altered the design of the originals. Attempting to get as far away from Edison as possible, early movie companies discovered California was a good distance from him and his marauders, but also the weather was much more agreeable to outdoor filming. The orange orchard that was the future Hollywood was close enough to the city of Los Angeles for convenience but also far enough away for more natural outdoor shooting areas that genres such as the western needed. At least until the arrival of sound in film, anyway.

22:32 The first Radio-transmitter was the Spark-gap-transmitter in 1887 by German Heinrich Hertz! That's almost A DECADE before Marconi!

please never delete your videos!! i wanna show my kids one day! :P you are awesome!!

There’s a reason Elon Musk named his company Tesla and not Edison.

I wish Tesla could see the world of today. He might be disappointed by the people, but the technology would be a wonderful progression of his ideas and dreams.

Thoughty. I'm not watching you from 1000's of miles away. .I'm upstairs, in a closet, in your house. ho ho ho, ha ha ha, he he he LOL

"and insults in klingon" I died

"A fire hydrant and a nut case"....you sure got that right!

Thomas edison is a thief.

That ACDC joke made me laugh more than I should have

3 dimensions. 3 quarks. 3 types of neutrino, 3 generations of particles. Besides the usual witchy ones. :)

Tesla was the mastermind, the genius, the innovator, the prodigy that brought it all up. Sorry for the other ones, but there is no contest

Original title: Who's the FATHER of electricity: Tesla or Edison?

Just found this channel and love it!! Great content.

I live in Port Huron. The train car that edison printed his paper in is in our museum, preserved as it was in the 1800's.

"You couldn't handle my gifts, with your greedy little mind, what's inside mine was ahead of its own time. You did not steal from me, you stole me from mankind." - nikola tesla tesla vs edison (EpicRapBattles)

10:23 "Tesla turned up in Budapest. And it was there that one day whilst walking through a park reciting poetry with a friend, AS YOU DO" I'm DEAD

Edison didn't even invent the lightbulb, he invented using cardboard as a filiment. The idea for using an electricuted filament to produce light was already out there. All he did was try out some materials to get a viable one, repeatedly trial-and-erroring like a definition of insanity, and got lucky.

Just pointing out that when you said "insults in Klingon" you showed a cartoon drawing of what looked like Spock, a Vulcan.

tesla's love for science and inventions has more weight because he didn't care about profit. edison on the other hand focused on money.

Let's settle it once and for all: Nikola Tesla: like Thomas Edison: comment Edit: No, this is not for clout sheesh

Excellent work as usual Mr Bond however was there a reason you didn't mention Topsy the elephant? All the best.

Tesla literally invented wireless electricity. But they took down his tower because he lied about what he was building (and greedy people can't charge others for electricity if everyone can access it) he was obsessed with 3 6 and 9. From what I remember it held a great importance to him. He created the idea of the electric car. Created the first motor with a magnetic field. This guy is a legend and he doesn't get enough credit.

I love that he loved animals and pigeons were his love.

I saw so much negativity toward Tesla on Quora, something in the line of “he’s fake, he’s overrated, or he stole others’ credit”, so I never paid attention to the guy. But man, he’s such an honest, smart, integrity man. He could be Bill Gate or Elon Musk if he was not such an honest person.

More oddities... Tesla also invented a practical incandescent bulb with a nearly unlimited life because it had no filament! It consisted of a chunk of carborundum - silicon carbide - a material that had only recently been created in an arc furnace. The carborundum pellet was mounted on an otherwise insulated electrode and sealed in a nearly evacuated glass bulb. When excited by a tesla coil (naturally) the molecules in the bulb would repeatedly hammer the carborundum pellet, heating it to incandescence that could be dazzling. How did Westinghouse make a fortune in railroads? He invented the air brake, a pre-engaged braking system that was released by air pressure. No longer did brakemen have to leap from car to car in all weather and lighting in order to set or release brakes on each car.

just to let you know near the start of this video where you say "insults in klingon" you show an image of Spok from Startrek.He is a Vulcan

Edison's DC-to-houses idea would have worked just fine. Of course there would have been AC/DC transformers before every house 😂

Oddly, and somewhat ironically, the extremely high-voltage transmission lines of the Pacific Intertie, which are over 500 kV, are DC lines. Similar systems are in service in Europe and some locations of the British Isles. The experiment engineering was conducted in laboratories on Hat Creek in Northeastern California.

The amount of puns in this video was quite shocking. I guess you could say that it was a testament of Arran's electric personality.

"I want Big Brother to spy on me thru the Alexa hockey puck." -Said _nobody, ever._

I'm studying C1 Cambridge Advanced English and I find your material incredibly useful for listening and writting, thank you very much.

Why AC and transformers are good - Electricity has two attributes - voltage and current. To use the hosepipe analogy, voltage is like water pressure, and pushes electricity down a wire. Current is like the amount of water flow. Current is affected by voltage, just like higher water pressure gives more water per second. A wider pipe would allow more current to flow for a given pressure, and so it is for electricity, except pipe-width is called "resistance", all conductors have a resistance to electricity flowing through them, depending on the material they're made of. Anyway... because wires have resistance, some of the power flowing through wires is lost, as heat. More current = more waste heat. Crucially this depends _only_ on current, the voltage doesn't make a difference to the loss. This is handy because power, overall power, is voltage multiplied by current. So if you could send electricity down a wire at high voltage, but low current, you'd have less losses, less of the electricity wasted. But because the voltage is higher, overall power delivered is the same. Transformers are a pair of wire coils. If the input coil contains 10 turns, and the output coil 100 turns, then the output will be 10x the voltage, and a tenth of the current. Now we're getting somewhere! But transformers rely on a moving magnetic field, which needs a "moving" voltage, ie AC. So in power stations, generators make power at around 22,000V. This goes into a transformer, or several transformers, where it's stepped up to perhaps 150,000V or 200,000V. This is sent across the country. High voltage, low current = lots of power, low losses. Then regional transformers transform it back down to maybe 11,000V. From there, it travels to local transformers that bring it down to 220V or 110V domestic users need. Now it's (relatively) low voltage and high current. So local transformers need to be fairly close to houses, any village or part of town will have one. In some places they use smaller transformers mounted on poles, in the UK they use great big ones, maybe the size of a couple of garages, in a little yard of their own. This system works pretty well, and has stayed largely the same since the beginning. With DC, transformers wouldn't work, so it would need power generated at domestic 220V / 110V and enormous currents. The amount of copper to wire a street would be immense. In practice we'd be limited to a couple of lightbulbs per household, and no electric cooking or heating, no large motors, no aircon. Every mile or two would need it's own power station, running on coal. Because they're smaller, they'd be less efficient. The pollution would be unbearable and probably knock decades off our lives! Sadly for him, Edison's stupidness was outclassed only by his pig-headedness, so he went round electrocuting elephants when he should have been negotiating a license with Westinghouse. That $50,000 he didn't give Tesla was probably the most expensive thing he ever did.

This video left me "THUNDERSTRUCK!!" - AC⚡DC

Ultimately the biggest winner in all of this was JP Morgan. He extorted Westinghouse out of the patents.

This is one of my favorite lessons in life.. always respect your rival.. your enemies.. for without them. You may never become your best.

Shoutout to Edison for being a eugenicist with a deaf wife...deaf wife doesn't mean much, except for the fact that he had a major disdain for the "deaf and dumb" and sought to "fix" them. Great guy. I think they left that out in the textbooks for some reason

Edison stole all of his ideas. Tesla did not.

I take pride in the fact i understood that Freud comment at 4:30 😂

I’d be fascinated to read ANY accounts of Edison playing Quidditch!

Eventually General Electric would market AC electricity after J. P. Morgan forced Edison out his company when it became clear that DC was losing the War of Currents.

"The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is".