He was an important character in a movie a few years ago. The Illusionist i think it was. The things Tesla was doing at that time were extraordinary. His profound insight into electricity (and magnetism) is humbling. There are a few key people throughout history that would radically change how the world is today had they died young before they could do their work. Tesla is a great example of such a person. If only more scientists had listened to him and really looked at his ideas at the time.
This is a TED topic I have waited a long time to see presented. I sincerely hope it is not the last time TED talks about Nikola Tesla, the world requires his story to be told and for the young minds of today to take up his work and bring to the world what Tesla dreamed of - Abundant FREE electricity, wirelessly transmitted, to everywhere on Earth. "The present is theirs. The future, for which I have really worked, is mine!" - Tesla
More stories of Nikola Tesla should be told, his sacrifice to this world is tremendous, his life and stories are profound, and his contribution to this world should be remembered by everyone! He was a great inventor, an incredible scientist!
You're comment is precisely the reason I don't read comments before watching a video. I was immediately biased against a presentation that was neither mocking nor 'disinformation'. And, do not know of any pauper who could have afforded to live at the Waldorf until they died. The video was perfectly charming and you are in desperate need of a sense of humor.
I'm interested in learning how to do some of the things he's doing here, so I'd genuinely appreciate knowing what aspects of it you don't like. Or, is there a way that presentation could be done without it annoying you? (Because most people are going to make emotion-based decision, the idea of teaching something in a way that affects emotions seems like a valid premise to me, if the principles communicated are true, and if it is not done in a deceptive manner.)
Also. I was saying we might have gotten great technology years or decades earlier if scientists of his time had taken him seriously and really looked into his research and ideas. Though understandibly they were hard to fathom at the time. And yes, i've read up on him, but not an entire book.
Great points. It is presented as a child's tale, interestingly. Well, I enjoyed it, however misleading or factually inaccurate the end of it is. Good talk, short and to the point. Here in Canada, we have these public service messages about our history that air on the CBC in 2-minute segments that are similar to this, similarly un-nuanced, but also similarly informative and great. History presented in these formats are the beginning of learning about the history, not the end point.
Perhaps my comments were worded a little too strongly. It's a good thing that this presentation has sparked us to talk about a very important figure from our past whose name, for the most part, has been purposefully kept a hushed part of our history. It's a shame, however, that nothing in this presentation sheds light on why a genius like Tesla - a man whose inventions continue to light up the world today - has been largely erased from mainstream history and from our public educational system.
You must have been watching a different video. This was a tribute to Tesla. To his work, his methodology and his genius by someone who clearly idolises him.
Of course he didn't invent the DC. But his inventions were based on it, and he developed a power distribution system for it. He is seen as the father of industrial scale labs. He was a great inventor and he contributed a lot to the modern society.
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[1] inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. --> English Wikipedia, we all have it. They told us in school that he's a Serbian too.
To settle this once for all: Tesla is by nationality Serbian. But, as we all have wikipedia: Nikola Tesla was born to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire near the town of Gospic, in the territory of modern-day Croatia. His family moved to Gospić in 1862. Tesla attended school at Higher Real Gymnasium in Karlovac. These are all croatian towns.
Although made several groudbreaking inventions like the phonograph and the stock ticker, he primarily refinined existing inventions. He didn't invent the lighbulb. He invented the first commercially sustainable lightbulb: long life, low power consumption, and cheap to manufacture. Yes, he hired people to hurry up the process, and that's why he's now seen as the father of the modern industrial research lab. He contributed greatly to modern society.
-And what about Croatian destroyed his house in war? (now renovated) -Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla are two different worlds. -Nikola Tesla - The Last Wish song - Tamo Daleko.
Well, the limitless energy thing is crock, out right. The other two are kind of the same thing? Any sort of wireless communication is going to be in putting out energy into the atmosphere. It was a communication tower, though. The idea behind it is sort of similar to radio towers, only grander.
The only part i do not understand about this fascinating debate is; if Tesla did had plans to make Free wireless electricity why are we not hearing about it being developed today?
I agree, luck had nothing to do with tesla's genius. People who depend on stumbling upon ideas have a few minutes of fame when they create something great by accident then eventually fall, but not Tesla. He was a true professional at what he did.
Tesla makes an appearance in the movie "The Prestige" which stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlet Johannson; he is played by the rock singer David Bowie.
Does anyone actually know what the Wardenclyffe tower was / was designed for? I've looked on loads of websites and they all seem to give contradicting views. Some say it would provide limitless energy, others say it was purely communication and others say it was designed to launch energy into the ionosphere and into the earth.
Does Marco Tempest have the most talks in TED? If so, that's a huge shame... There are far more speakers that are more deserving of additional TED talks than him.
Tesla had a Guru (Vedic Guru) thats why he had the profund vision and could visualize the inventions, plus the education that he obtain in university gave him the chance really to create the inventions. He worked with his higher consciousness, just a spiritually developed Human being :))
Maybe I also would've been one of those philistines who disliked Georges Melies's use of the cinematographe to enhance his magic act, but Marco Tempest's glibly whimsical TED presentations annoy the hell out of me. If I'm the only one, I won't bring it up again.
They were both good scientists. Edison spent his time developing the DC while tesla developed the AC. As it turned out AC is superior in many aspects and eventually became the standard.
The limitless energy was the reason why JP Morgan pulled the funding from the tower project and made it so no one else would invest in Tesla. JP Morgan was the most powerful financier in those days, and when Tesla said his tower could also be used to transmit power Morgan cancelled the funding. Free wireless electricity = Business Fail for Morgan.
Your right.. some media or marketing estrategies is to make a backgroud to a certain book, movie or product release... This is the same for fashion and cultural behavior (some new study shows that Coca Cola is good for your digestion..).
The only reason Tesla became a "showman" is because Edison became a showman first, trying to discredit Alternating Current in favour of Direct Current. And it was not talk of contacting other planets that lost him funding but rather the possibility of drawing energy from the earth and the atmosphere, which led JP Morgan to comment that if Tesla were successful, the power suppliers would be "reduced to selling antennae."
A huge amount of the general public haven't even heard of Tesla, only his coil. In the making of, Marco even says that this presentation was made because of his lack of fame.
He didnt get the fund not because he told them it can be used to contact other planets but because, it can give FREE unlimited energy for no profit.
Wow I can only imagine how much time and effort he put into this. Great job Marco! The legacy of Nikola must live on!
The most incredible Tesla video you will ever see!
The giant shines throughout the times.....
The great minds have no boundaries!
Great presentation, full of creativity. and still not enough to introduce this great scientist who has been ignored by western scientific society.
Such a great presentation. It's so cool. God bless Nikola Tesla.
He was an important character in a movie a few years ago. The Illusionist i think it was.
The things Tesla was doing at that time were extraordinary. His profound insight into electricity (and magnetism) is humbling.
There are a few key people throughout history that would radically change how the world is today had they died young before they could do their work. Tesla is a great example of such a person. If only more scientists had listened to him and really looked at his ideas at the time.
The sooner we re-discover Teslas ideas the better.
The most entertaining Ted Talk I've ever seen..
AWESOME!!
A very well-presented TED talk. Far more engaging than the usual slides.
Fantastic presentation!! His use of available technologies and subject matter was a very thoughtful nexus. This is why I sub TED.
This is the fourth Marco Tempest talk on this channel got to give him props for that.
This is a TED topic I have waited a long time to see presented. I sincerely hope it is not the last time TED talks about Nikola Tesla, the world requires his story to be told and for the young minds of today to take up his work and bring to the world what Tesla dreamed of - Abundant FREE electricity, wirelessly transmitted, to everywhere on Earth.
"The present is theirs. The future, for which I have really worked, is mine!" - Tesla
this is simply beautiful! What a nice presentation of legendary Nikola Tesla! It really did touch my heart
what a shame there are not more people like this
great.
More stories of Nikola Tesla should be told, his sacrifice to this world is tremendous, his life and stories are profound, and his contribution to this world should be remembered by everyone! He was a great inventor, an incredible scientist!
Hey TED was featured on BBC news today! Great to see support and recognition for it :)
Wow... I can't remember the last time that something instilled in me that childlike wonder I experienced while watching this.
Bravo!
All his old patents should be looked at, they are available on his wiki page.
You're comment is precisely the reason I don't read comments before watching a video. I was immediately biased against a presentation that was neither mocking nor 'disinformation'. And, do not know of any pauper who could have afforded to live at the Waldorf until they died. The video was perfectly charming and you are in desperate need of a sense of humor.
I'm interested in learning how to do some of the things he's doing here, so I'd genuinely appreciate knowing what aspects of it you don't like. Or, is there a way that presentation could be done without it annoying you? (Because most people are going to make emotion-based decision, the idea of teaching something in a way that affects emotions seems like a valid premise to me, if the principles communicated are true, and if it is not done in a deceptive manner.)
stunning presentation.. i should be looking into doing something similar to that
Tesla is Amazing. and so is this guy too!
such a piece of art!!!! trully amazing and I am falling short
Also. I was saying we might have gotten great technology years or decades earlier if scientists of his time had taken him seriously and really looked into his research and ideas. Though understandibly they were hard to fathom at the time. And yes, i've read up on him, but not an entire book.
Very Good Video ! Think You.
Fabulous. David A. Puchta
10 points for originality! This guys is great!
Great points. It is presented as a child's tale, interestingly. Well, I enjoyed it, however misleading or factually inaccurate the end of it is. Good talk, short and to the point. Here in Canada, we have these public service messages about our history that air on the CBC in 2-minute segments that are similar to this, similarly un-nuanced, but also similarly informative and great. History presented in these formats are the beginning of learning about the history, not the end point.
Exquisite just like Tesla's mind!
Can't agree enough.
Great presentation! Tesla was the 'Mozart' of Science.
brilliant presentation! couldn't take my eyes off the screen!
Tell us more!
Muito lindo , porem não consigo uma versão legendada, grato.
Shame I just saw this vid. This is fantastic!
Perhaps my comments were worded a little too strongly. It's a good thing that this presentation has sparked us to talk about a very important figure from our past whose name, for the most part, has been purposefully kept a hushed part of our history. It's a shame, however, that nothing in this presentation sheds light on why a genius like Tesla - a man whose inventions continue to light up the world today - has been largely erased from mainstream history and from our public educational system.
I am interested in why his work was 'squashed' and why the public would be rightly upset. May you please show a link to substantiate your claims?
You must have been watching a different video. This was a tribute to Tesla. To his work, his methodology and his genius by someone who clearly idolises him.
i loved the presentation.
Are the Tesla quotations voiced in the presentation accurate or only conjecture ??
hmm something just trickled in.. the reason his tower was taken down as it gave free energy to anyone who wanted it. they claimed it was a weapon
It's the iPhone magician! I love this guy!
Well done.
What a beautiful human being.
who can dislike this its amazing...!!!
Nikola Tesla changed my life
That was kinda really beautiful
I thoroughly enjoyed that. ty
Entertaining!
This guy has such a beautiful mind!
Of course he didn't invent the DC. But his inventions were based on it, and he developed a power distribution system for it. He is seen as the father of industrial scale labs. He was a great inventor and he contributed a lot to the modern society.
they should make a movie about his life similar to the way they did the life of Howard Hughes in The Aviator
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[1] inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. --> English Wikipedia, we all have it. They told us in school that he's a Serbian too.
Tesla's story always gets to me. He just wanted to make mankind better, it's fortunate for us that we even got a fraction of his ideas.
The most amazing show i had ever seen :)
beautiful tribute!
I'll take your suggestion and watch it. The more i take in, the more rounded and dynamic i become. . . .SHAZZAMMM!!!
How long would it take to design such a book?
I once saw Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
How did they even do that? Jesus, I want a TED talk about this TED talk, how the hell does his projector thing work?
That's so genius of mark...
To settle this once for all: Tesla is by nationality Serbian. But, as we all have wikipedia:
Nikola Tesla was born to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire near the town of Gospic, in the territory of modern-day Croatia.
His family moved to Gospić in 1862. Tesla attended school at Higher Real Gymnasium in Karlovac.
These are all croatian towns.
Although made several groudbreaking inventions like the phonograph and the stock ticker, he primarily refinined existing inventions. He didn't invent the lighbulb. He invented the first commercially sustainable lightbulb: long life, low power consumption, and cheap to manufacture. Yes, he hired people to hurry up the process, and that's why he's now seen as the father of the modern industrial research lab. He contributed greatly to modern society.
Such a beautiful tribute to an equally beautiful mind, may he rest in peace.
This is amazing
-And what about Croatian destroyed his house in war? (now renovated)
-Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla are two different worlds.
-Nikola Tesla - The Last Wish song - Tamo Daleko.
Well, the limitless energy thing is crock, out right. The other two are kind of the same thing? Any sort of wireless communication is going to be in putting out energy into the atmosphere. It was a communication tower, though. The idea behind it is sort of similar to radio towers, only grander.
The only part i do not understand about this fascinating debate is; if Tesla did had plans to make Free wireless electricity why are we not hearing about it being developed today?
I agree, luck had nothing to do with tesla's genius. People who depend on stumbling upon ideas have a few minutes of fame when they create something great by accident then eventually fall, but not Tesla. He was a true professional at what he did.
I want to tell stories like that to my kids in the future!
I would enjoyed a traditional presentation more. Tesla's life is very interesting.
Tesla makes an appearance in the movie "The Prestige" which stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlet Johannson; he is played by the rock singer David Bowie.
Does anyone actually know what the Wardenclyffe tower was / was designed for? I've looked on loads of websites and they all seem to give contradicting views. Some say it would provide limitless energy, others say it was purely communication and others say it was designed to launch energy into the ionosphere and into the earth.
Nice talk! :)
Does Marco Tempest have the most talks in TED? If so, that's a huge shame... There are far more speakers that are more deserving of additional TED talks than him.
Watch the movie "The Prestige"! Epic film and great role for Tesla in it. Watch it "blind" though, no spoilers!
This was pretty cool
You promise.. :). Besides that part - nice comment.
Tesla had a Guru (Vedic Guru) thats why he had the profund vision and could visualize the inventions, plus the education that he obtain in university gave him the chance really to create the inventions. He worked with his higher consciousness, just a spiritually developed Human being :))
i think it was swami vivekananda
yes
i like this guy his been on ted before u no
Nikola Tesla the name beyond all the names of the world of genius
Maybe I also would've been one of those philistines who disliked Georges Melies's use of the cinematographe to enhance his magic act, but Marco Tempest's glibly whimsical TED presentations annoy the hell out of me. If I'm the only one, I won't bring it up again.
BRAVO
Out of interest, can you give some examples in which this has occurred in medicine?; just want to look them up, thanks
This is actually beautiful...
AWESOME!!!! BRAVOOO!!!
I need a love button for this!
They were both good scientists. Edison spent his time developing the DC while tesla developed the AC. As it turned out AC is superior in many aspects and eventually became the standard.
Tesla would have loved this presentation - well that's what I think. I believe his mind was pure and innocent.
The limitless energy was the reason why JP Morgan pulled the funding from the tower project and made it so no one else would invest in Tesla. JP Morgan was the most powerful financier in those days, and when Tesla said his tower could also be used to transmit power Morgan cancelled the funding. Free wireless electricity = Business Fail for Morgan.
That was magical!
That's neat! Thanks, I couldn't remember the whole name. ^.^
Your right.. some media or marketing estrategies is to make a backgroud to a certain book, movie or product release... This is the same for fashion and cultural behavior (some new study shows that Coca Cola is good for your digestion..).
How do you know?
The only reason Tesla became a "showman" is because Edison became a showman first, trying to discredit Alternating Current in favour of Direct Current. And it was not talk of contacting other planets that lost him funding but rather the possibility of drawing energy from the earth and the atmosphere, which led JP Morgan to comment that if Tesla were successful, the power suppliers would be "reduced to selling antennae."
A huge amount of the general public haven't even heard of Tesla, only his coil. In the making of, Marco even says that this presentation was made because of his lack of fame.
so true
This is so sick!
Tesla's life and story never ceases to spark the imagination.