NO JOKE: EDISON WAS A SWINDLER: he was in no small part responsible for Tesla’s sad end.

@mikespearwood3914

Жыл бұрын

Tatooine?

@debacofzomb9889

Жыл бұрын

Edison was a colossal douche. We owe pretty much every piece of tech we have in the modern world to Tesla.

@stopdroptroll1465

Жыл бұрын

Sahara?

@lesliedelvalle8939

Жыл бұрын

@@stopdroptroll1465 typo! “sand” should have been “sad”! He actually had to become a ditch digger at one point! His idea for free, available electricity would have made GE unnecessary and profit less.

@gabriele9400

Жыл бұрын

Tesla was given a Stipend from Mr George Westinghouse...so he could live decently also in 1933 Social Security came of age?

Nothing more american than an immigrant insulting another immigrant for not being American enough

@realm8286

Жыл бұрын

"I am an american because I came 20 seconds earlier than you and you are not." Story of America

Edison was a very bad & greedy man

@peacefulwarrior4151

Жыл бұрын

He was a con artist prick...

@hughmann1927

Жыл бұрын

Edison was a proud American and one of our forefathers boy

@jacobviator3118

Жыл бұрын

​@@hughmann1927 yeah .. he was still a piece of shit...

@huntrrams

Жыл бұрын

Stole and “re-invent” stuff that existed

@skinsey85

Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget learning about all that along with what he did to elephants 🥺

Ah yes, a classic American joke: pretending to pay enployees for hard work

@IfGodWereEvilHedBeMe

Жыл бұрын

Yup now there’s clauses in contracts stating while working for a company that if you invent a new product or find a way to make the product your working on better the company then retains the rights to it.

@Idontwannahandl

Жыл бұрын

America pays its employees more than every single other country of similar size. Closest comparison is Germany which has an average income nearly 20000 dollars per year less, and the American worker keeps significantly more of their check due to tax rate comparisons. I get that it's chic to bash America, but normally good jokes are based in truth, and there was no truth to yours

@Floedekage

Жыл бұрын

​@@Idontwannahandl strange way to manipulate data. What does a countrys size (and do you mean population or area?) have to do with income comparison?

@carnos1119

Жыл бұрын

@@Idontwannahandl what about pay compared to the cost of living?

@Cyfix15

Жыл бұрын

Financial malfeasance and theft is what makes billionaires

Tesla revolutionized electricity and all he got was this stinking t-shirt

@vanderlustforever7134

Жыл бұрын

And a car named after him. Edison will always be remembered as a bastard. That ain’t going away.

@brucewayne6356

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention died alone penniless.

@stoptrudeau42

Жыл бұрын

He was a eugencist

@rodneyw849

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and what rrally happened to Steve Jobs... surely didn't die of cancer anymore than Nikola Tesla jumped from his apartment!

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

He didn’t revolutionize anything 😂

Tesla did a whole lot more than just present the idea, he actually retrofitted the generators and got denied payment.

Edison was threatened by and jealous of Tesla! Narcissist always hold up progress! Their egos just never seen to get out of the way!

Why is Edison the only one we learn about in school? Edison was an ass

@suec8304

Жыл бұрын

Edison had a very good propaganda department. It was called Publicity. He generated lots of stories that people believed.

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

@@suec8304 no lol, that’s what Tesla has.

Edison was a Salty POS. People don’t talk about that enough.

Have you ever seen the documentary Discovery Channel did on Tesla? It was great. All Tesla wanted to do was invent a way to provide all Americans free electricity and look at what happened. Tesla was a man ahead of his time.

@i-fart-n-elevators4610

Жыл бұрын

Rich people don't invest in something that will be free as they want profits

@boboften9952

Жыл бұрын

Westinghouse commercialised the selling of electricity

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

Lol. And for this “free energy”, who would pay for it? He didn’t make a device that made energy, he made a device that was very inefficient at transporting it. Stop with the lies.

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

@@boboften9952 and Tesla would have too? His energy was never free

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

@@i-fart-n-elevators4610 well if something is too good to be true, it probably is. Tesla was not who you think he was

When I grew up, I found out Edison was the villain after all

Edison, was just one terrible human

Same with Jack Daniels. A slave invented their whiskey and only got credit, not any money or freedom for it. It’s only recently the company gave him credit.

@rad6554

Жыл бұрын

source?

@MRPiki-js4jg

Жыл бұрын

​@@rad6554 just google it to see if its true, is it that hard to do?

@zeeqq105

Жыл бұрын

@@rad6554 You have so much information at your finger tips. Stop being lazy and use it. Smdh

@joepurshock9931

Жыл бұрын

I recently read that. Like Josey Wales said to the chief, it looks like we can't trust the white man.

@sexilexi444

Жыл бұрын

​@@rad6554 You literally can look this up yourself, as this was a big story pretty recently.

It's funny that schools don't tell you that if you worked for Edison and invented anything he'd slap his name on it.

@cleverusernamenexttime2779

Жыл бұрын

Still works that way.

Edison was SUCH a bad man, for many reasons. How very disappointing.

The american joke is that he's swindled Tesla

Lol, there's a difference between joke and a liar/thief and we all know he's not a comedian 💯👍

Edison was a jerk 😠. I knew that but never heard this story. Thx

@lesliedelvalle8939

Жыл бұрын

I knew his story but you put it perfectly: he was a jerk!

@W2mNm

Жыл бұрын

@@lesliedelvalle8939 😂 thank you. I tend to put things bluntly. Not always does it go in my favor IRL. I had a stronger word in mind but didn't want Ariel to delete me LOL.

Proof that smart people don't profit. The corporations does

Usually jokes are funny, this was just a downright lie

@geraldbright8990

Жыл бұрын

Was more American than screwing someone for money

Tesla had the answer and was screwed for his inventions and died penniless.

@owj182

Жыл бұрын

Thus they lost Tesla. Tesla has another invention, anti gravity device.

Welp, the former employer was wrong about knowing 2 great men…

All Eddison did was cover the inside of a light bulb with glass and he was created for inventing the light bulb. Smh

That's some dirty shit right there for Edison to do that!!

I will ALWAYS look at Edison with pure DISGUST from here on! They should remove EVERYTHING they have on him right down the road from me at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan! I never knew he was such an Evil man. Tesla deserves more credit than he's given

@robanderson7471

Жыл бұрын

Henry Ford felt Edison hung the moon. That's why the shrine to Edison at Greenfield . I've never seen only heard about the place bucket list. Also Edison home place down here on Florida somewhere close by me. Or a day trip.

@Mr.Not_Sure

Жыл бұрын

But what you say if I tell you it was not Edison who made such bad "joke", but rather a manager, Batchellor?

@oxicleanbleach6377

Жыл бұрын

Tesla is not all that, he didn’t even invent AC. He didn’t do much, actually.

The stuff I read on TE he was a unscrupulous human being .

Those are stabbing words

Poor Tesla 😢 can you imagine the creations he could have done.

The difference between a charismatic and clever man, versus a socially awkward genius.

Thanks for covering that…people need to know about Edison

Edison ...may all your bacon burn

@sebione3576

Жыл бұрын

...in hell

@jdelossantos1494

Жыл бұрын

Chill calcifer

@rickythe2nd63

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure all the food is pretty burnt where he went...

I mean capitalism is awesome, but not paying someone and especially after creating one of the most used technology in the world, is horrible. Of course generating AC current is one if not the most useful thing ever invented and you can’t argue that Nikola wasn’t a genius person.

Edison was a sneaky one. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Imagine how differently things would have played out if Edison had been a man of his word

Wow, an exploitative capitalist, a bad factory owner, and abusive boss under capitalism? No way, who would have thought?

@Teh_Random_Canadian

Жыл бұрын

Edison was the OG capitalist

Business man vs Inventor

American jokes are their own form of criminal malfeasance.

That's so sad

Ironically, Elon Musk acts more like Edison than Tesla

I remember hearing about this Edison grift and with that the wizard of Menlo Park became just another low down to me.

I’m a street photographer who’s always wanted to live in New York City. Now that I live here, I sometimes wonder where and what I should shoot. These short videos give me places to check out so I just wanted to share my appreciation!

Humble correction: It was not Edison.

@Miopop58

Жыл бұрын

You are not sure. Others is.

@Vilakazi

Жыл бұрын

​@@Miopop58 you is not either.

In other words, Edison had no intention of ever giving Tesla his promised $50grand.

Edison. Took credit from other people's work. Glad history is taking care of this.

Tesla invented alternating current for long distances?,He did it all and did a spindless turbine blade experiment in the Waterside power plant in 1920..where I worked and got injured in this plant in 1993..it was one of the first generating stations in NYC...

What happened, after Thomas told him it was a joke, he's a layer, he didn't know anyone, would come up with a great idea, since, he couldn't, where's the rest of the story? Did Tesla give him the AC motor or did Thomas stole it from him , took the credit?

@charlesleasum5881

Жыл бұрын

The rest of the story, AC/DC war. Edison destroyed Tesla

@W2mNm

Жыл бұрын

I can't remember all of what was covered about them in 'The Men Who Built America' History Channel series but you could try that. Plus there are alot more documentaries and shows, etc about Tesla, Westinghouse and Edison. Really interesting stuff.

@belladonnatook8851

Жыл бұрын

The "American" character & mentality.

Regarding the mythical misunderstanding over the fifty thousand dollar promise, Tesla blames "The Manager" not Edison. If Tesla was the genius that every one says he is, would he seriously expect a $50,000 bonus for completing a project, when he was making an $18 per week salary. It was a matter of pride for Tesla, not money. These are Tesla's words regarding his meeting with Edison from his autobiography: "The meeting with Edison was a memorable event in my life. I was amazed at this wonderful man who, without early advantages and scientific training, had accomplished so much." Tesla came to America, in search of his hero, Thomas Edison. When Tesla realized he was wasting his time selling his ideas to a stubborn man who did not want to hear them, Tesla felt rejected moved on. Reference: My Inventions, by Nikola Tesla - First published in 1919 in the Electrical Experimenter magazine.

Edison was ahead of his time with the whole "it's just a joke bro" 🙄

And that is what you call : "No hard feelings man,nothing personal,strictly business." "Friendo"

If only this actually happened

Edison's rivalry was with Westinghouse, not Tesla's.

Edison wasn't as terrible as they make him out to be, he was just as terrible as the average factory owner.

Thomas Edison was the real American joke. I think Nicola Tesla understood that.

it's so sad greedy Edison got the game for Tesla ideas.

Edison was a jerk! Pay the man! That is a lawsuit today.. Not to mention, JP Morgan getting pissed at Tesla for trying to invent free electricity. Cutting him off from all future investors.. What a Shame!

"it's a prank, it's a prank!"

No one is interested in helping humanity but themselves 1st and only.

He should have challenged him to a duel. 📡👽🇺🇸 RUN!!!

This looks like when Indian worker asks Emirati about promised wage in Dhubai

You don’t really probably don’t understand stand the magic of Alternating Current. From the power plant to your house whenever the voltage goes into a transformer the wires are never actually touching. They’re just wrapped around each other one has 100 wraps around a coil and the other one that’s feeding your house has 50 wraps. It’s a loose concept, but when it has 100 wraps going to 50 wraps, the 50 wraps is a step down in a voltage to become usable by household items but the wires wrapped around each other are not actually touching so the wire comes into the transformer and there’s another wire that it wraps around and the wires are both insulated they’re touching but there’s not any physical touching going on just through insulation and insulation keeps electricity from escaping out but what the cool part is is energy specifically was alternating current is electrons moving back-and-forth like if you were to rub your arm back-and-forth we create a certain type of heat and heat is a form of energy, but the conservation of energy is one of many radio or radiation, heat light noise, and and electrons moving back-and-forth created type of radiation or electromagnet activity that moves the electrons in the copper that it is wrapped around so it’s magnetism that causes a movement in the wire next to it so they’re not touching, but the energy that an electron gives off when it’s moving back-and-forth creates enough radioactive energy or magnetism in the wire that’s close to it that it moves. The wires neighboring it to move back-and-forth which is crazy to think that the wire from the substation to your house is never actually touching each other, but it uses the phenomenon of electronsto electrons in the coil wrapped around it

This is a version of an often-told tale, spoiled only by the fact that is is not true. Tesla himself related how he was promised a bonus by an Edison manager (not Edison himself) for solving an electrical engineering problem (not substituting AC for DC) and after he delivered the manager reneged.

and let the fight begin!!

That's why NYC's electric grid provider is called - CON EDISON. he was a Con. 😬😅

Nice story, but it's probably not true. Tesla writes that the manager of the company promised him $50,000, the manager of the company was Charles Batchlor, the man who wrote the letter of introduction and the manager of Edison Electric. Offering cash incentives was not how Edison motivated his inventors. He gave patent credit. $50,000 is equivalent of $2,000,000 today, an astronomical sum. Most historians agree that the wager was either a misunderstanding of Tesla's or simply wasn't true.

@chrislane8466

5 ай бұрын

Anyway, when Edison heard this he must have thought it was a joke. Again, the amount of money offered being so huge.

Edison was crazy

Welcome to Fan Club of Nikola Tesla🎉

Tesla was Rob from the history books... The level of genius is beyond anyone's understanding... To think the way he thought or imagined the world he imagined it could be ... Tesla wanted to give free energy to the world... a true humanitarian. Tesla was years beyond any genius back them and now.

Edison was a badass

You failed to address how Edison would electrocute animal in demonstration against Tesla’s progress and works.

My opinion of Edison changed when I found out he made most of his money from suing people and not from his inventions. Look it up its true.

For anyone interested in a fuller story about Edison, Tesla and Westinghouse, read "The Icepick Surgeon" by Sam Kean.

Tesla defeated Edison in the war over AC vs. DC. That cost Edison more than $15,000.

Chandler Bing retro boiii😂😂😂

That was the first of the many times Tesla would get screwed!

When I started hearing bad stuff about Edison I researched him. The more I read the more I learned what a shit head he was. He was vindictive,jealous and a liar and that was just to his employees.

Simply NOT TRUE!! Tesla wrote an autobiography. Here's the passage: “During this period I designed twenty-four different types of standard machines with short cores and of uniform pattern which replaced the old ones. The Manager had promised me fifty thousand dollars on the completion of this task but it turned out to be a practical joke. This gave me a painful shock and I resigned my position." The manager, not the boss. Besides $50k in 1880s would be $1 Billion in Biden's economy.

the irony is solar panels are dc . which directly over your roof

I visited the Edison winter home and museum in Ft. Myers, Florida years ago. It's was memorable. The tour guide said that Mr Edison was physically lazy. So I guess laziness could be added also to other descriptions of the man here in the comments.

And then, Edison electrocuted a live elephant just to slander Tesla's AC.

@cajunguy6502

10 ай бұрын

Thats another myth. One of his roving film crews recorded an elephant being electrocuted, but no one on Edison team did anything ro orchestrate it.

That Edison fella was a real jerk.

Oh hell no...where's my money????

That was equivalent to 1.5 million today ..!!

Do your own thing children.

This is an urban myth. The only historical source for anything remotely close to this story is one from Tesla's autobiography, and he never sames the guy who did it, just called him "a manager." He also absolutely gushed over. Edison in the same chapter, so its unlike that edison was involved.

Imagine how different the world would be if Tesla had come out on top instead of Edison

@cajunguy6502

10 ай бұрын

He did. He very literally did. Well, HE didnt win, but the side he was on did. JP Morgan eventually got fed up with Edisons AC superstition, booted him from GE, and started using AC.

More importantly when Tesla beat eddison in the war he also beat eddison's financial backers. And it would be one of these guys that would finally trick and defeat Tesla. His name was jp morgan.

@cajunguy6502

10 ай бұрын

JP Morgan took Edison's company out from under him. He also funded Tesla's research years after.

LEWIS LATIMER

@cajunguy6502

10 ай бұрын

A big edison fan, that guy. Edisn bought his patent and gave him a high paying job in addition! He was actually at Edison's company longer than Edison himself was, before leaving to start his own consulting business.

More evidence that Edison was 90% huckster and 10% inventor.

Edison : The True American Dream

Moral of the story... Trust no real American

Both practiced polyphasic sleeping

Tesla was a very true genius!

Sounds about right.

Tesla shoukd have got it in writing.

That name Tesla sounds vaguely familiar.

Tesla was smarter just not in deception!

But why does a young Thomas Edison look exactly like Ellen Degeneres?

Just imagine If tesla had 50k that early in his life. The wonders we would have.

Tesla will remembered as a genius he also invented wireless electricity .... unfortunately he was a bad business man

Edison didn’t even invent the light bulb!