The Odd Life of Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla has gotten a resurgence in popularity, but his overall life is not widely known. What did he do that was so significant? What was his story? Is he overhyped?
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edison backstabbing tesla is the worst anime betrayal ever
@James-pb7kr
6 жыл бұрын
TOP 10 ANIME BETRAYALS Edit: I can't English apparently.
@croatiaboy11
6 жыл бұрын
My main is Kid Cobra go away Min Min YE
@James-pb7kr
6 жыл бұрын
It's a meme.
@ucid5363
6 жыл бұрын
home ak 47 500th like
@levongevorgyan6789
6 жыл бұрын
How true, because like your anime waifu: It isn't real.
I've always believed that near the end of his life he was a genius trapped in the mind of a madman. He had the mental capacity to do anything he wanted, but he went crazy and died in obscurity.
what do you call a stolen Tesla an Edison
@Menno_3
6 жыл бұрын
I didn't get it. But I liked it anyway.
@yengub
6 жыл бұрын
Tesla worked for Edison who took credit from Tesla's inventions and discoveries.( i think thats what it meant)
@Jefferson5020
6 жыл бұрын
People who wants likes will have the wierdest profile pictures
@ikerants745
6 жыл бұрын
train man Edison did not steal FROM Tesla Edison stole Tesla from Mankind(us)
@potatophantasm1405
6 жыл бұрын
What do you call a stolen Tesla My car.
Famously the inventor of the tesla cannon
@adamskii7812
6 жыл бұрын
Rufus Brown famously known for not making the car named after his later name
@NoobPTFO
6 жыл бұрын
I'd like to thank him for the Tesla Power Armor
@imperatorodaenathus9329
6 жыл бұрын
famously known for being recognized by our Great God, Elon Musk.
@noahborthwick3231
6 жыл бұрын
Excuse me for dropping in
@NoobPTFO
6 жыл бұрын
DID SOMEONE SAY... PEANUT BUTTER?
*Tesla's Bizarre Adventures*
@araragid3cimo77
6 жыл бұрын
Nikola Tesla best LALA
@shikamaruthehokage
6 жыл бұрын
Electrify za wardo!
@rauguziteljguzi5211
5 жыл бұрын
Electricity is unbreakable
@Failfer
5 жыл бұрын
Your Theory Is MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA
@polakk5912
5 жыл бұрын
He invented hamon
The American kazoo cracked me up.
@mariusbjrnebekk3999
6 жыл бұрын
Rufus Brown O
@taramas5582
6 жыл бұрын
Kazoo kid is back!!!
@johangonzalez783
6 жыл бұрын
You mean Cody?
@r.coburn3344
3 жыл бұрын
Rufus the American Kazoo is my new band, wanna join us?
well he invented a trap in clash of clans
@captinobvious4705
6 жыл бұрын
so you never played RA? what a shame DAMN YOU TO HELL EA
@literallyonevideo7118
6 жыл бұрын
Tiger King damn telsa coils were badass in red alert
@Mistrinho7
6 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why there wasn't a bigger storyline involving Tesla in Red Alert or C&C. Could've easily played on any side.
@y0urs03pic
6 жыл бұрын
C&C: RA was literately the FIRST Game to USE a Tesla Coil as a weapon or other Tesla Weapons !! CoC and the rest of the other games are copycats of using a Tesla Weapon !!
@nolanwestrich2602
5 жыл бұрын
Well, like 50% of games have some electric Tesla weapon. Looking at my moble games right now, Clash Royale, Mindustry, and Infinotode all have some sort of tesla tower.
I think it might have been important to mention he invented the binary system both for use with his remote control boat and to be able to turn on and off appliances within a coil.
@30wheelbicycle57
10 ай бұрын
Binary was invented by Ada Lovelace in the late 1800s. He just applied it to his inventions
@johnkilmartin5101
10 ай бұрын
@@30wheelbicycle57 He is the one with the patent. Whoever invented the jacquard loom had a system using it. But both of those are mechanical as opposed to electrical.
Is that why the band was called AC DC with a electric sign in between?
@manfredvoncoolstuff6071
6 жыл бұрын
Probably
@BrownHairL
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Angus and Malcolm saw "AC/DC" in a little sign in their mother's (or grandmother's... can't quite recall) electric sewing machine, and thought it'd be a cool name.
@davidricardo4991
6 жыл бұрын
.
@scr3aming3agle83
6 жыл бұрын
Lucas Cottica Silveira was their mothers. Fuckin Love ACDC btw, best hard rock group ever
@captainprotag0nist
6 жыл бұрын
or quite *SHOCKING!?*
_"Hey son if you don't die you can do the science thing."_
@comedicpsychnerd
2 жыл бұрын
*cough* *cough* th-thanks dad…
Fire destroyed Tessa's laboratory destroying his work and inventions .I don't think this was a coincidence
@jamesn5051
6 жыл бұрын
Tessa? Yeah I smell good.
@stripes5171
6 жыл бұрын
fucking auto-correct
@michaelloges8703
6 жыл бұрын
Weagmonz 4444 Is it your boys cologne
@maximkazhenkov11
6 жыл бұрын
I don't think there was a conspiracy. Edison's factory was also destroyed by fire at one point. Fire was just a common hazard back then.
@miketas7665
6 жыл бұрын
Stripes you know you can edit your comment right?
His vision of electricity being wireless and being able to tap into the energy of the world could make a really cool story based around sci-fi of their time.
Tyler's getting a lot better! He's still not as good as Cody, but Cody has years of practice. The video itself looks great, too. Bringing in Tyler as a narrator has proven a great decision. Looking forward to future essays!
@FabiusDerDM
6 жыл бұрын
i am not quite sure about that. He speaks faster and his pronunciation is a little bit moist and harder to understand for someone with english as a second language. He gets bonus points for effort, tho. If he would start speaking more clearly, this would help.
@TaePoDongIII
6 жыл бұрын
agree saturas. His pronunciation for names and pronouns in the 51st state video was BAD. Take some speaking lessons first. Why did Cody stop narrating anyway?
@drewstillexists
6 жыл бұрын
klovervibe - I like Tyler, and I'm glad to see his videos, but I wouldn't mind some more Cody videos either.
@victorgz2907
6 жыл бұрын
Saturas Yeah, I have a bad time understanding him, have to turn on the subs to catch his words
@indyh7716
6 жыл бұрын
not as funny
Fine line between Genius and Madness. Especially when he was known to have obsessive compulsive disorder. He may have even been autistic (Asperger's Syndrome) before it was known. Tesla may or may not have been as smart as history claimed but he did inspire innovation and ideas that others benefited from. He was the catalyst to great inventions if not the actual creator of those inventions.
5:20 lol "actual footage"
at the Noble prize award ceremony : -Mr. Thomas Edison we're gonna use your invention to enlighten the world . and for you Mr. Tesla we're gonna use your invention in the backround of Frenkenshtein movies .
@DoctorRock172
6 жыл бұрын
Hmm I would say this is a bit to simplified.
@grantbaker34
6 жыл бұрын
Family guy reference people
@Edax_Royeaux
6 жыл бұрын
The NAME is Fran-ken-stein!
@ImAwesome1277
6 жыл бұрын
ltflak yea but he's pronouncing it in an Austrian/Germany accent. If though the spelling is horrendous
@FabiusDerDM
6 жыл бұрын
dont think so, given that it is in fact a german Name. You would spell it anyways: Frankenstein. He just tried to spell it in the monolingual american "i write what i hear" way.
Tesla was right all the way up till the point to where he questioned the wrong man, Einstein. But no matter the case, Tesla should've rose to the top
What if the Norman conquest of England failed?
@IamRayson
6 жыл бұрын
Chris Canty The English language would be very different. Also, the 100 years war would have been less likely to happen.
@steppebro
6 жыл бұрын
English would have sounded more like Danish today
@chriscanty7486
6 жыл бұрын
An Uncomfortable Young Korean In Culture Shock Good thing I speak Danish then ;)
*sigh* I used to find tesla interesting, and we studied his work extensively in school. But this new found attachment crackpots have to him has really soured me on the topic. It has become an almost religious thing, with people legitimizing any number of fridge ideas by trying to assign it to tesla. Which is a pity since he did really great stuff, but his actual accomplishments have been utterly swamped by the mythology that has popped up around him. There is also the irony in people trying to focus on his legacy have shifted so many other even less well known inventors and scientists to him. It is almost like we can only acknowledge 1 person per domain per century or something. Even before his new found attention he was one of the most famous inventors of his period.
Tesla always confuses me I can't pin down how influential he actually was
Thank god this wasn't just another Tesla circle jerk. Love your videos
@leerman22
6 жыл бұрын
I'm glad for that. Too many legends and hyperbole is stated as fact.
Serbia: He was a Serbian! Croatia: But he was born in Croatia! Serbia: But he was a Serbian! Croatia: But he was born in Croatia!
@MONSTERKILL2013
6 жыл бұрын
he was born in krajina, a part where serbs live in croatia, and a part where croats have been harassing serbs
@zwegster1422
6 жыл бұрын
M O N S T E R K I L L what does this have to do with my comment, the harassing started during the break of Yugoslavia
@MONSTERKILL2013
6 жыл бұрын
l just find it funny how croats claim he was one of them yet tried to do ethnic cleaning in krajina where he lived. Krajina never saw itself as croat
@zwegster1422
6 жыл бұрын
M O N S T E R K I L L well if krajina is Serbian territory, isn't Kosovo Albanian?
@MONSTERKILL2013
6 жыл бұрын
l agree it's albanian territory, for now, it used to be serbian, but it was taken from us from ottoman ethnic cleansing, as the albs were promised kosovo by ottomon, plus tito let albanians flood kosovo. Kosovo has been fought for throughout history by serbs, its soil is covered in our blood and it will return to us like it has many times before
The one youtuber not involved in drama lol
@MihkelKukk
6 жыл бұрын
True dat.
@jpcriddle6446
6 жыл бұрын
Mihkel Kukk no it isn't, here's a few that come to mind that are not involved, there are hundreds more. VanossGaming Do it with Dan Humour vault Deji (comedy shorts gamer) Yogscast H.I.S.H.E. Red Vs Blue Jake the garden snake
@yes-tw8df
6 жыл бұрын
JPC Rider comedy shorts gamer is sometimes in drama
@ianmaluk1
6 жыл бұрын
Give it time.
@marcusfigved7593
6 жыл бұрын
AutismAlert not mine!!
essentially tesla was a mad scientist of his time
"Magic isn't real." Me: "Then how do you explain electronic devices?" "Well, you see, the way they work is -" Me: "Nah, man; das magic."
You need to do an alternate history video based on the book Ruled Britannia, however don't do it to soon I'm still reading it ;)
I was starting to miss your videos Cody! And cheers to Tyler he's doing a great job!
tanks for the video
I like the old style better
@MihkelKukk
6 жыл бұрын
+1
@prestondial1992
6 жыл бұрын
+1
@prestondial1992
6 жыл бұрын
This is still good though
@darken2417
6 жыл бұрын
+5000
@Dovahbruhh
6 жыл бұрын
+1
You should do a video on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the subsequent political fallout (pun intended) that happened, and the effect on today's politics and mindsets.
How did you get a hold of that footage at 5:16?
From what I heard, from historical documentaries and Wikipedia mind you, Thomas offered Nikola $50,000 (which would be $1,200,000 today) if he could improve the system. Nikola succeeded, but Thomas said he didn't understand American humor, so he angrily left. At least, I think that's how it happened. Also, it wasn't an earthquake machine, it was an oscillator for steam powered generators. And it wasn't a death ray, it was more of a heat beam, I think.
@zahariburgess3660
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was a microwave gun or something along those lines
@kevinlane1219
Жыл бұрын
@@zahariburgess3660 Thank you for your testimony.
Can you do a video on Josip Broz Tito? Really like your videos btw
@lukadinicc2229
6 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Helgesen OH YESSSS That would be awesome
@nbksrbija1039
6 жыл бұрын
Broz before -hoz- other videoz
All in all pretty good,just if you mentioned more of his "crazy" milytaristic inventions that never came to be example:A machine that would have been able to diseble enemie aircraft using electrisity or something like that not sure heard about it a while ago...
Loving Tyler's vids
I'm glad I knew alot of this history. Even happier to have filled in some gaps I didn't know about
6:38 Hey that's just like in rdr2
ACDC
@das3610
6 жыл бұрын
landon taylor damn son
@CEGsViewingChannel
6 жыл бұрын
Big Balls
When will you upload on the alternate history channel
Okay Cody, getting your brother Tyler to work on videos on the channel was a fantastic idea.
Thank you. I recommend "Tesla: Inventor of the electrical age" by W. Bernard Carlson, an honest biography for anyone wanting more details without any contamination by the free energy peoples.
Greatest virgin in the history of mankind
@FabiusDerDM
6 жыл бұрын
ah, i see. Referring to yourself. You know this is a Video about Tesla? Longest dong back then?
@spencerbush1474
6 жыл бұрын
Cereal DuDe That belongs to Newton. He actually was a virgin for life.
@jakevermeer1109
6 жыл бұрын
I agree he beats Jesus by alot
@alikos88
6 жыл бұрын
Tesla...was Asexual before it was a "thing"
@matthewkendall8592
5 жыл бұрын
The Virgin Mary wasn't a virgin.
Nice video 😎
Where's that part 3 of the CSA series? You originally said it was going to be the first week of July
(Insert *ELECTRIC* pun here) To be fair, that joke was rather *SHOCKING* I'm sorry
@pineconepinecone8630
6 жыл бұрын
Thomas Vodrey wow you shocked me
@DinaricWolf
6 жыл бұрын
The truth hertz.
@laurierim
6 жыл бұрын
Thomas Vodrey *Watt* are you doing with your life?
@ossi_2429
6 жыл бұрын
Ohm my gosh.
@striped_sponge7187
6 жыл бұрын
Thomas Vodrey Guess *watt*?
Im not very knowledgeable on this, but it sounds like he was wrong about everything except ac.
@shreyvaghela3963
3 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Winnie kind of
I love how you used cyberpunkish music to depict how the 19th century saw electricity. It made me smile.
That beautiful kazoo rendition of the Star Spangled Banner damn near brought tears to my eyes.
Is it just me or does that weapon he theorized kind of sounds like a Rail gun?
Glad that you mentioned Marconi! He really changed the world as we know it with his works!
Keep coming back to this video, don’t know why
5:20 that's the best ACTUAL FOOTAGE I've *directly* seen...
This comment section are people debating whether he is a Serb or a Croat. It's like a new Bosnian Genocide
@TheAkinator87
6 жыл бұрын
Zander Tirabasso Mladic did nothing wrong.
@void_wyrm
4 жыл бұрын
The "Bosnian genocide" has nothing to do with this and also he was a Serb
Scotty Sire's tesla will probably have a more *SCHOKING* life than anything
@victorgz2907
6 жыл бұрын
Aarne Jaroma *SCHOKING*
@aarnejaroma
6 жыл бұрын
Víctor G. Just realised it now lol *SCHOKING*
Just to point out something around the seven minute mark. Marconi transmitted data from Newfoundland NOT Nova Scotia. Just a common misconception.
How did you obtain actual footage?
I think it's sad. He was obviously a brilliant mind, he would have done very great things if it weren't for the fire. The fire might have affected him badly. It's after it happened that his life went down hill. He became crazier and his ideas became outlandish. He might even develop a mental problem as he aged. I'm just saying, it's obvious that he was traumatised.
who the hell is tyler, i want cody
@onetwothreefour3957
6 жыл бұрын
Issc wait, the same guy that used to be in his videos ages ago?
Cody where is part 3 you said next week that was a month ago
Who else thought the electric spark at 0:52 was a erratically dancing headless stickman
Tesla was a Serb
@loggingfire1
4 жыл бұрын
That's not what he said, Tesla was born in the area now in Croatia, but wasn't Croatia back then
yaay weird guy!
I like these animations.
WE WANT PART 3!
HECK YEAH! NIKOLA TESLA! I'm hype because i did a presentation on him back in 5th grade lol
🎶🎵I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to say that Tesla was Serbian🎶🎵
@tomothan
6 жыл бұрын
Serbian*
@toxicmain9738
6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Băț yeah piece
@rockfan2996
6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Băț *serb ai priceput, dragă ;)
@CmdrShepard1001
6 жыл бұрын
It says a lot about Serbia when being the birthplace of someone who became great after moving out is the biggest source of pride among Serbians.
@BoxOfGod
6 жыл бұрын
Technicaly he had citizenship in Austrian Empire.
Tyler is beggining to grow on me. But cody still is knowlege hub to me! 😜 good topic.
Actual footage!
You forgot to mention that he fell in love with the pigeon and that he (tried?) to shock the children as well thinking that it would make them good at maths :D
@paperboss4036
6 жыл бұрын
stupid rumors very stupid
@scottkrafft6830
6 жыл бұрын
He also never dated women (of course never had sex) because he thought it would distract him from his work.
@s.u.p.r.e.m.e.society9607
6 жыл бұрын
Scott Krafft Why am I now imagining Peter Griffin getting ready to have sex with a bagel?
@HenryAB
6 жыл бұрын
Source: My ass.
@soysauce8437
6 жыл бұрын
Tell Me This theres actually studies rhat show an electric shock can make you better at math
"he believed that marconi was using his patents, although he was using them for very different purposes." completely unbiased.
@shreyvaghela3963
3 жыл бұрын
Good thing he is not a fanboy
make a video explaining the 7 seas like the origin of the term
What songs where used in this video
TESLA IS SERBIAN!!! WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK HE IS CROATIAN?!
@FlowerTrollSan
5 жыл бұрын
PositiveChristianity He was born in the Austrian Empire and emigrated to the USA, lol. But he was an ethnic Serb.
@loggingfire1
4 жыл бұрын
He didn't say that, he said he was born in the AREA now IN Croatia, but it wasn't IN Croatia back then, boarders change
@enderman_666
3 жыл бұрын
@NovaZora What exactly did Croatia give him? He would've had much the same upbringing, or even better perhaps, had he been born in Vojvodina or in Hungary proper.
damn, he had good skin though.
@taramas5582
6 жыл бұрын
Rave Beast WTF?!
What happened to part 3 of the series with EmperorTigerstar?
Awesome!
This is the true story Nikola Tesla, without dramas. Nowadays, Kids are worshipping Tesla for building that childish sci-fi Tesla coil and they like to imitate his bizarre personality. If you're really into science he was just a ordinary eccentric man, nothing more. Not the greatest mind in history or man with the highest iq (there's no official iq test for him) as most kids say. I respect him for what he did with his 84 years of his life on Earth, but I also dammed shame on him for so many stupid guessworks he made, that most of which were scams. He was just randomly handpicking the ideas that pop-up to in his head, and he also mocked the most important modern scientist, Albert Einstein and his works which are observable truth. First time I read about Nikola Tesla, i was about to like in his works and his oddness. But Tesla's fans...😥, those ignorant Tesla's fans are so annoying!
I Like His ,,Earthqueake Maschine"
Please cover Aaron Burr
and how do you send "information"? ...
*TESLA* * A GREAT LIFE*
Hi how are ya?
Yeah
If Nikola Tesla Would have succeeded in creating wireless energy we all would have been dead
ONE OF GREATEST SERBS IN HISTORY
@lightning4242
6 жыл бұрын
kronos 222 his mom was Croatian and his dad was a Serb
@mail2257
6 жыл бұрын
Mate Orsulic there is no documant thet his mother was croat coz in thet time was old "vojna krajna" where serbs was 65%+ and in his whitig he called him self serb
@tdlf156
6 жыл бұрын
kronos 222 No one gives a shit. How about we appreciate his achievements instead of his nationality
@TheAkinator87
6 жыл бұрын
Mate Orsulic That's wrong.
@andrejvidovic1
6 жыл бұрын
"How dare someone say Einstein is Jewish, he was born in Germany!!"-that's what all you idiots who contradict the fact that he is a Serb sound like
Nikola Tesla was a Serb, his father was an ORTHODOX priest, and he even mentioned that he was a Serb a few times. He might've been born in Croatia, but his ethnicity is clearly Serbian.
@loggingfire1
4 жыл бұрын
Once again, he didn't say that, he said he was born in the AREA now in Croatia, but it wasn't in Croatia back then
Cody when you said ac i thought you meant air conditioning
pls make a video about the war of 1812
according to tesla and his fans: tesla invented everything and everyone is just a thief 😂😂😂
What happened to Alternate History Hub?
7:10 Even if his ideas aren't physically possible it still makes for some damn cool looking sci-fi imagery
>father was priest >said he was intelligent thanks to mothers genes S A V A G E
@FlowerTrollSan
5 жыл бұрын
Pr00ch But his mother was the daughter of a Serbian Orthodox priest too, so...
At long last, finally a simple and factual video on the man.The mythology surrounding Tesla seems to be growing daily. Most discussions lead me to believe that there is a new religion growing with him as the Messiah. It seems to go something like this. Once upon a time a man was born with an intellect so great that no other living person has ever come close to him. He performed many miracles and was totally altruistic. A cabal of devils by the names of Edison, Westinghouse, and Morgan, in league with an evil government, sought to exploit his inventions, suppressing those which would have liberated us, and ensuring that he died virtually unrecognised and in poverty. Only a filthy version of his perfect inventions, which allowed the evil capitalists the greatest wealth and power, was ever allowed to be made. If only we had worshipped him in his lifetime, we would now be living on light itself (I shit you not). Amongst his miracles we may list The miracle of radio, far in advance and more powerful than anything Marconi applied. The miracle of wireless transmission, which had to be suppressed as this would not allow the evil capitalists to charge. The miracle of the death ray, which governments were too stupid to recognise. And finally, The miracle of free energy, which would allow every human being access to unlimited power in spite of the laws of thermodynamics. I think I want to spew.
Please do video on Australian State flags!!!
This script was incredibly well written.
Dang it I am gay
@aidankii8667
6 жыл бұрын
Seb Please sir this is a Christian server son no swearing
@ImAwesome1277
6 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain bro
@edwardcollier7218
6 жыл бұрын
Let me ring up someone to help you. *rings up promised person to help* "Mr. Vice President Pence, can you send some of your best electroshock therapists here?"
@officerchad1213
6 жыл бұрын
Dang I'm an attack helicopter
@theq4602
6 жыл бұрын
I'm a centralist who hates all ideologies you all shall burn.
Proud to be a serb
@hizoball252
6 жыл бұрын
+Atom Alexandra (Nightblade) You cannot stop a 1000 year old war machine, it only slows down and speeds up, the only way to stop it is to destroy it (Nuking it to oblivion)
@nikmil4568
6 жыл бұрын
Proud to be a degenerate American
@lenini056
6 жыл бұрын
Fuck you because I'm American who loves Serbia. We are not all degenerative!
@nikmil4568
6 жыл бұрын
I meant the general populace. You are an outlier to the rule, not the other way way arounds. Anyway cheers
@claymeistereu
6 жыл бұрын
Proud to be a Pole. Polish?
7:49 holy shit that would be an awesome invention
there are also two OTHER types of electrical currents, but AC and DC are the main two we use.
He was a good person. RIP the greatest man ever lived.