Thank you for uploading! Love you so much!!

Very informative episode and as an American I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the BBC science and historical documentaries I've been privileged to have watched do to the advent of the internet e.g. KZread.

Whoa! This documentary appears almost "Anti-Tesla" as it describes the progress and success of electricity! Did an adult review this video prior to release? They might need to do so again! Thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!

this is honestly fucking beautiful. in no way can i express my gratitude to be conscious and able to learn about this world

Great vid been doing some research on James Clerk Maxwell this was very informative. Brunel is a new name to great stuff thanks!

6:30 'As I move the magnet through the coil, I create an electric charge' No. Charge is not created, charge is motivated into action. A current is created *not* a charge. It's not a small difference.

fantastic quality production! ty

Excellent - thanks for posting!

Why is the genius of Britain not available to watch in Britain!?

Thanks for the video. I love documentaries.

the intro though holy shit. gave me goosebumps

ohhhh fuckkk yeaa dude!! i have been waiting for this episode forr sooo longgggggggggg!!! their proabably in the third season of this show by now! thank you soo muchh for uploading please continue to upload the rest of the season! and for those who haven't seen the first 2 episodes check them out!

THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Loving this series! Thanks so much for uploading it.

He's only kept it because it has come to be recognised as his voice.

1.13, David Attenburough is wielding a light-saber...

This video has 37,834 views at this time, Eminem's video has over 85 million views in th last four months. Scary world we live in!

@ElusiveCube

10 жыл бұрын

yes indeed, Snooki probably does even better than that, meaningless people getting meaningless awards for they meaningless achievements, the titanic is sinking and no one is noticing.

@lesterpearson8760

6 жыл бұрын

I guess we need to give thanks to the many superficial folks for reducing competition so the few can rise to the top and make meaningful contributions. It's thanks to them that others rise. Reduced competition. There's a positive side to everything I suppose ...

This is the kind of history we need to tell our children, not the history about decadent Kings and their wars and concubines or religion.

thanks for sharing Atheist Planet Blog

the British are also good at another thing....making great documentaries!

Excellent upload... I love these episodes! This along with Dawkins debates are my favorite.... Also, check out "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" Excellent episodes.

WRONG! Thompson did NOT design & build the first hydroelectric power station at Niagra Falls. That was accomplished by Nikola Tesla with financing from Westinghouse. HOW could somebody get that wrong or worse yet totally ignore the historical facts that Tesla was the very first to transmit AC currents at long distances? This program seems to be "British biased" & not interested in actual scientific historical facts. Maxwell contributed to communications but again, TESLA was a the very first to demonstrate its practicality. Despite the "legend", the myth that Marconi "invented" radio, the U.S. Supreme Court determined, in 1943 & only ten days after the death of Tesla, that Marconi was NOT the inventor of radio considering that he had "borrowed" at least 10 of Tesla's registered patents to do so.

@ftldny

7 жыл бұрын

"In 1893, Thomson headed an international commission to decide on the design of the Niagara Falls power station. Despite his belief in the superiority of direct current electric power transmission, he endorsed Westinghouse's alternating current system which had been demonstrated at the Chicago World's Fair of that year. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin#Electrical_standards

Q: Long time ago there were apelikes who started fighting against wild animals as tigers and panters and came out of the trees? But also: There were apelikes who ate the meat of such wild animals, and that influenced also the evolution of brains, while the apelikes who stayed in the trees had another diet? Or not?

Hi can you please make this available on mobile? On some trips this is the only way to watch...

They gave all the credit to Faraday and Maxwell. But what about Ampere and Ohm?

I wonder if Dr. Hawking ever thought to himself..."why doesn't my computer have a British accent?"

The physicist's physicist , james clerk maxwell

Probably because Marconi transmitted his trans atlantic signal from The UK., and Tesla, as you say worked in The US.

Hi everyone, does someone know where to find part 4 of the series?

@ZachRose88 I concur!

@Schneboll lol he has a different haircut in each scene.

@TheBigDransutavicius Indeed, thought the same thing when they mentioned Marconi. Tesla was the first, but Marconi got the credit through shady politics with bankers and the patent office. Tesla is a true unsung hero

I'm fascinated how ancient civilizations that have thrived long before Europe had any significance accept perhaps the Greeks, but than suddenly everything have changeg as if overnight. Most if not all the greatest of inventions are white, no hunger, poverty, plague, war, religion, could have stop it, even though the whites were in lesser numbers than most great nations, yet despite of it all, this relatively small race have prevailed against ALL ODDS. **fascinating**.

@KateeAngel

9 жыл бұрын

All humans are one race. "Races" we usually describe are just artificial social concepts

This documentary is called Genious of Britain and it is obvious that the story of British scientists will be told. Nobody is expecting from you to tell stories of others, but you referred Marconi and Einstein somewhere in the doc. The question is why Tesla wouldn't be referred during Niagra Falls part for the ac current and for the radio signal? I still don't understand this understanding which ignores Tesla.

I can't have it in my country.:(

Actually it was Hertz who invented radio. Tesla developed much of what became transmitting radio technology. But, it was Marconi who produced the first complete viable working system of radio transmitting equipment for the purpose of communication. Tesla at the time was developing radio technology for remote control purposes. This link is to Tesla's own paper, note the last paragraph. en(dot)wikisource(dot)org(slash)wiki(slash)On_Light_and_Other_High_Frequency_Phenomena

Global Village, McLuhan! Woot!

NikolaTesla is the biggest genuis who ever walked on our planet, if he doesn´t show in other episodes, then that would be a disgrace.

Lol, this video isn't available in Britain. Fucking hilariously ridiculous.

@Te4mUp

8 жыл бұрын

+Monty get a vpn, m(9-1)

@MountMonty

8 жыл бұрын

That's the funny thing, I'm in America and I was using a British ISP address on my VPN :P

@Schneboll I like his haircut.

I guess this goes to show. You can lead a horse to water. But you can't make him type, spell, and use sentences free of grammatical error.

Wasnt ampere french and ohm german?

poor wallace :,(

It was good up to the point where Marconi was mentioned, and electricity and radio waves... and not the word of Tesla... I'm sorry but this was too much. Actually this is typical.

500 years ago the earth was dark...lol!!!!

Why are you NOT able to use a nicer voice with a British accent, you are a very brilliant man,, yet, you cant perfect an inviting voice??.. Be it in todays technical revolution ,and THIS voice is the best you can do, Dr,Hawkins..You have a superior and brilliant brain,,and mind,,you are a genious,, you can do better than that voice, they give you,,

tesla was the one to build AC generator and harness the power of niagara falls, don't give wrong information. Thompson took that idea from tesla. You people should learn to give credit to tesla for his important invention.

Amper and l guess you....don't 🤪 forget the others we made the world 🌎...my little friend..tesla ohms juls whatts Edison volta..etc etc etc etc.

You are always better off being the historian who knows about history than carrying the the experiment

@oukazadar There is only one logical response to that comment; I'm really sorry for you.

Thank goodness for youtube; I don't have to watch the garbage that's on popular tv.

I HATE the synthesized voice.

is there a movie of a Genius of Africans? is there a significant difference between white people and black people in terms of intelligence?

@MrMikeexley

9 жыл бұрын

Read the book 'guns,germs, and steel: the fate of human societies ' by jared diamond. Covers your question from every angle.

@hamzashaheen672

8 жыл бұрын

why are you so fascinated by Africans ?

@krieskteyan

8 жыл бұрын

i am not fascinated i just want to study if there is a significant difference in terms of African Intelligence compare to European and the relationship why White people are more advanced compare to Black countries who are Economically undeveloped and some are poor

@Brekner

6 жыл бұрын

I would say the fact that black people were thought of as inferior until recently and that they could not even get an education made it very hard for them to make a notable impact. And even if let's say a black man invented something, a white man would just take credit for it.

Nikola Tesla isn't a genius from Britain but a Serbian-American genius.

No only the London make the world...you a little bit selfish....Edison Volta ohms juls whatts disel Ford herz master Nikola tesla............and....

Sick of seeing Steven Hawking "host" science shows. He's a brilliant man who has done amazing things, but he makes a horrible television host considering he's mute, and expressionless.

I can see that they have mixed in a few genuine geniuses like Newton with a few pseudo-geniuses like Dawkins, Hawking, Darwin and probably Sagan. Sad, how these pseudo-scientists are included simply because they attack God.

what a great lie. give credit to the real genius. Tesla!!

@forrestgump3111

6 жыл бұрын

Sonny Brar WTF without Faraday there would have been no Tesla