The Historic Disappearance of Louis Le Prince

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Комментарии • 11 тыс.

  • @tristan9660
    @tristan9660 5 лет назад +4872

    It's pretty sad. Dying just before you become one of the greatest inventors in history. Having your son killed because he tried to protect your legacy. It's depressing.

    • @elisebadger6041
      @elisebadger6041 4 года назад +162

      I know right. For some reason i feel sadder about this story more then other stories covered on this show. Probably because this story wasn't all down, this man probably was feeling on top of the world when he was kidnapped and most certainly killed.

    • @marythebene
      @marythebene 4 года назад +42

      this comment has serious Hamilton vibes

    • @aster1594
      @aster1594 3 года назад +13

      @@marythebene OMG yes Hamilton vibes

    • @dawnn.1675
      @dawnn.1675 3 года назад +3

      @@marythebene Exactly what I was thinking

    • @Thelongmanable
      @Thelongmanable 3 года назад +5

      *_Google "PENMAN OF THE CONSTITUTION" then google "Who wrote the constitution.... Everything in history is a lie and note he went the rest of his life being called "penman of the constitution" while being noted as one "who did most the work".... Jefferson was exactly like Eddison!!!_*

  • @TheOctoberOwl
    @TheOctoberOwl 5 лет назад +4050

    The more you learn about Edison the more he seems like a hack.

    • @miloskocic1759
      @miloskocic1759 5 лет назад +7

      @Mister Physics he is not a socialist

    • @radmoonable
      @radmoonable 5 лет назад +10

      @@miloskocic1759 tesla was a socialist

    • @miloskocic1759
      @miloskocic1759 5 лет назад +3

      @@radmoonable no he was not

    • @lunak9053
      @lunak9053 5 лет назад +5

      And a sociopath

    • @DiabolicalButler
      @DiabolicalButler 4 года назад +30

      welcome to a whole new world. all the propaganda shoved down your throat about our american heroes is all lies.

  • @swagsquirrel3534
    @swagsquirrel3534 3 года назад +5032

    Just another reason to hate Thomas Edison, that invention stealing thief

    • @liya5695
      @liya5695 3 года назад +120

      Oh how I despise him

    • @barriolimbas
      @barriolimbas 3 года назад +51

      Worse than stealing it seems.

    • @jo-nb6rt
      @jo-nb6rt 3 года назад +99

      in this house we only hate thomas edison!!!!!!

    • @abbyc6813
      @abbyc6813 3 года назад +113

      all my homies hate Thomas Edison

    • @kindateia
      @kindateia 3 года назад +7

      What other things did he steal?

  • @DarkShadows713
    @DarkShadows713 3 года назад +4959

    "What would say if I told you the inventor of film was NOT Thomas Edison?"
    As someone who does not know film history but DOES know that Thomas Edison was an invention-stealing liar, I would say "That does not surprise me at all"

    • @Frumpbeard
      @Frumpbeard 3 года назад +28

      I thought he was the one that invented the light bulb, this is all news to me.

    • @DarkShadows713
      @DarkShadows713 3 года назад +85

      Frump Beard He patented someone else's invention

    • @timeflies313
      @timeflies313 2 года назад +157

      @@Frumpbeard That was Joseph Swan. Edison is nothing but a Thief. He tried to fool people when he was alive, little did he know generations later that all his dirty secrets will be exposed and known.

    • @sailorv9118
      @sailorv9118 2 года назад +27

      I literally replied to Ryan, "it was probably Nikola Tesla!"

    • @roseroses7576
      @roseroses7576 2 года назад +1

      The inventor of film was George Eastman.

  • @AustinJASMR
    @AustinJASMR 4 года назад +7429

    Mom: Why are you building a time machine?
    Me: To save Louis Le Prince

    • @petitecaptain8525
      @petitecaptain8525 4 года назад +441

      "I may not come back, but it is for a noble cause!"

    • @brooklynnbutterfield1951
      @brooklynnbutterfield1951 4 года назад +218

      PetiteCaptain “tell the world about this man!”

    • @ForeverMe543
      @ForeverMe543 4 года назад +165

      Austin James haha
      "Okay honey, pack clean underwear"

    • @jaypegasi3769
      @jaypegasi3769 4 года назад +33

      Thank you, we need to save him

    • @rain1641
      @rain1641 4 года назад +17

      ngl I would do that too

  • @FrodoLuver1
    @FrodoLuver1 6 лет назад +5253

    THIS CASE PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH. I can't believe that this guy literally invented movies, something horrible happened to him, and someone else got the credit. I'm so mad.

    • @Chicken56877
      @Chicken56877 6 лет назад +192

      it is really sad to be honest. I have a feeling that if we dig deep enough we soon find out that what we learn in our history class is not entirely true.

    • @sydney19931
      @sydney19931 6 лет назад +123

      Not only did someone else get the credit, but to this day, even though the true is in Louis Le Prince' favour, Edison still gets credit. It's so sad, and like you, it pisses me off.

    • @URHUSBANDBEATSU
      @URHUSBANDBEATSU 6 лет назад +39

      Amber Warren same as whites taking blacks inventions, songs, and other things they made and put I off as there own for centuries. 👀

    • @douloureux.
      @douloureux. 6 лет назад +34

      Bella Song only in the US. Also men taking womens inventions or having them credited because ‘a woman could never do that’

    • @emilomnic316
      @emilomnic316 5 лет назад +11

      amber Edison's goons killed Prince. Its all in his journal.

  • @deiadied
    @deiadied 3 года назад +2429

    Bruh Prince’s son literally showed the moving picture and gave his grandmother death certificate and that she was in the film! How is that not enough evidence to show that Prince is the real inventor bruhhhhhhh! I’m angry!!!!

    • @Qingeaton
      @Qingeaton 3 года назад +23

      Sounds familiar.

    • @Lemur1610
      @Lemur1610 3 года назад +160

      Edison probably paid off the court

    • @KillasaurusArcade01
      @KillasaurusArcade01 3 года назад +279

      Because he's French. America don't want no one getting credit but America

    • @saturnmercury8533
      @saturnmercury8533 2 года назад +28

      @@KillasaurusArcade01 That's true...

    • @CixousSixth
      @CixousSixth 2 года назад +12

      They couldn't prove that Le Prince's original single-lens motion picture camera was the one that actually took said motion picture.

  • @uncosminreels
    @uncosminreels 3 года назад +5690

    I've actually impressed my Film history & theory lecturer with the information presented here and after some extra research from both of us, my lecturer decide to update his teaching material and highlight Louis Le Prince, to take his deserved glory place in film history as the father of moving pictures. It's small but it's a start

    • @alex.5318
      @alex.5318 3 года назад +41

      bravo coaie

    • @inberichten
      @inberichten 3 года назад +98

      Good job, it's some well-deserved recognition :)

    • @fromage6926
      @fromage6926 3 года назад +7

      👍

    • @heyoimoved4729
      @heyoimoved4729 3 года назад +29

      that's awesome! i'm very proud of you ^^

    • @Izzy_jam
      @Izzy_jam 3 года назад +20

      Yay! a small victory for Louis

  • @KaIIavan
    @KaIIavan 5 лет назад +8844

    Let me add in the fact that Edison electrocuted an elephant to death.

    • @erinlee7125
      @erinlee7125 4 года назад +526

      Yami are you serious what a piece of garbage

    • @tainaf.8327
      @tainaf.8327 4 года назад +445

      Aliceyorkie1 4 yeah her name was topsy :(

    • @skylarwalters2718
      @skylarwalters2718 4 года назад +672

      mrs obama it’s even worse when u realize that the whole reason he did it was to discredit nikola Tesla’s invention of AC to make Edison’s DC seem better. By the way, most lights today do not even utilize Edison’s direct current, yet he still largely gets credit for it

    • @awesomemess6832
      @awesomemess6832 4 года назад +112

      Did u get this info from a Bob’s Burgers episode 😂 bc I totally remember that episode

    • @corneliali7747
      @corneliali7747 4 года назад +435

      actually, he's also the one who suggested death penalty by electric chair using AC, to associate Tesla's invention with death. So yes, he indirectively electrocuted human to death too.

  • @seand1030
    @seand1030 4 года назад +13050

    One of my history teachers in high school said “I’m gonna teach you the textbook version of Edison, because I have to. Then I’m gonna teach you the truth”. Edison was a hack.

    • @deknees8969
      @deknees8969 4 года назад +796

      Kudos to that teacher.

    • @slithra227
      @slithra227 4 года назад +311

      Edison was a bitch. Know who else was a bitch? Marconi. My first media prof had personal beefs with both of them.

    • @gayghostmeme3911
      @gayghostmeme3911 4 года назад +82

      My history teacher refuses

    • @ppowerrz
      @ppowerrz 3 года назад +199

      that teacher is a bhaddie 😼💅✨

    • @HI-ho4bj
      @HI-ho4bj 3 года назад +146

      Edison should be in economics chapter

  • @PaZuLiTa
    @PaZuLiTa 3 года назад +801

    I'll never forgive Poptropica for making me believe as a child that Edison was the actual inventor

    • @dinah6693
      @dinah6693 3 года назад +51

      And Mystery Train Island was my *favorite* one to solve😭😭

    • @bannahannana9403
      @bannahannana9403 2 года назад +32

      They told me lies about Edison’s inventions in both the train and time travel islands 😔

    • @cloudsenpai9258
      @cloudsenpai9258 2 года назад +19

      Not Poptropica 😭

    • @spark1400
      @spark1400 2 года назад +5

      @@dinah6693 mystery train island was incredible

    • @MobinaKhan-IsNotOnFire-
      @MobinaKhan-IsNotOnFire- 2 года назад

      🙌🏻

  • @karanraghunath869
    @karanraghunath869 3 года назад +432

    European scientist: invents something
    Edison: *it's free real estate*

  • @itsmalv7365
    @itsmalv7365 4 года назад +7747

    Louis Le Prince: *disappears*
    Edison: *finally he "invents" movies*
    Adolphe: *testifies against Edison*
    Edison: ...
    Adolphe: *found dead*
    Not suspicious at all my dudes

    • @ForeverMe543
      @ForeverMe543 4 года назад +180

      malv ina right? He totally had something to do with this.

    • @uliseslazaroace2789
      @uliseslazaroace2789 4 года назад +70

      malv ina if he did kill my nugga prince he in hell burying for it rn

    • @yahairakuiperi6011
      @yahairakuiperi6011 4 года назад +18

      Not at all.... 👀

    • @flipside6006
      @flipside6006 4 года назад +4

      Nice😂

    • @FenrirGBG
      @FenrirGBG 4 года назад +66

      Edison was a 1890's version of the Clintons

  • @neutral.astronaut
    @neutral.astronaut 5 лет назад +5113

    I love that all the comments are full of hate toward Edison Sometime I want to write a history book exclusively to insult Edison

  • @Ashley-vs8nu
    @Ashley-vs8nu 3 года назад +242

    The fact that they keep showing that SMUG picture of Edison is legit making it worse

  • @daisukekambe8907
    @daisukekambe8907 3 года назад +420

    Interesting how Louis disappears than a year later Eddison starts shooting motion pictures.

    • @acemerceramv8561
      @acemerceramv8561 3 года назад +33

      Or how his patents were useless until 1897, and Edison was projecting movies in 1896

  • @Queersailorscout
    @Queersailorscout 5 лет назад +3163

    I hate Thomas Edison so much. Robbing my boys Tesla and Louis

    • @heyitsdarkangel9065
      @heyitsdarkangel9065 4 года назад +60

      He's such an a-hole

    • @AtlisDe
      @AtlisDe 4 года назад +83

      Yeah i was going to say, Tesla was robbed too, but luckily people recognize or the very least know about Tesla's achievements. Where as until this video I'd never heard of Louis before.

    • @wcmxae341
      @wcmxae341 4 года назад +1

      Tesla will always be my favorite person, Edison was a dick just because Tesla left him

    • @XxDoomxBestxX
      @XxDoomxBestxX 4 года назад +8

      Andddd another video that shows the d bag Edison was. Low key Edison probably made him disappear

    • @damienhartley3222
      @damienhartley3222 4 года назад

      @@heyitsdarkangel9065 No Tesla a hole setting the white house lawn on fire with his quak invention Teslas followers make people addicted to smartphone because they are waiting for the car to charge.

  • @111111444444444
    @111111444444444 5 лет назад +6948

    Thomas Edison is the real-life Gilderoy Lockhart

  • @janheartnazarenelayoso408
    @janheartnazarenelayoso408 3 года назад +698

    Edison will always be a thief, Y'all know about Tesla?

    • @kiarasmith9890
      @kiarasmith9890 3 года назад +46

      i know that edison stole one of teslas inventions and he was credited for his work but which invention was it, I remember it being the lightbulb but he stole that from joseph swan

    • @peenyyt4921
      @peenyyt4921 2 года назад +2

      Everybody knows about tesla

    • @Nat-ls1uo
      @Nat-ls1uo 2 года назад +1

      @@peenyyt4921 thanks to the ones who put his name up there, Making him justice.

    • @adambump5297
      @adambump5297 2 года назад +4

      Yeah Nikola Tesla the inventor of Tesla Coils, the Radio & the Remote Control.

    • @ben-hn2ek
      @ben-hn2ek Год назад

      @@adambump5297 radar too I guess

  • @sintexx2801
    @sintexx2801 3 года назад +403

    Bro, I swear Ryan will be on his death bed with his family all around him and he’ll use his dying breath to whisper his last words:
    e n d q u o t e

  • @CommanderG7979
    @CommanderG7979 4 года назад +4122

    As the old saying goes, "History is written by the victor."

    • @majcry4188
      @majcry4188 4 года назад +44

      Nah edison just stole what someone else wrote and said he wrote it

    • @444ngelhaven8
      @444ngelhaven8 4 года назад +121

      @@majcry4188 that... what it means

    • @majcry4188
      @majcry4188 4 года назад +6

      @@444ngelhaven8 That someone made something, and edison stole that something, and said that he came up with it.

    • @themadlad8540
      @themadlad8540 4 года назад +7

      Hitler gives u 2 thumbw up

    • @perseuslove1335
      @perseuslove1335 4 года назад +1

      Doesn’t apply here.

  • @sam-nk5fu
    @sam-nk5fu 5 лет назад +5031

    *In class*
    Teacher: Who invented movies?
    Students: THOMAS EDISON
    Le ghost of Louis le Prince: Am I a joke to you?

    • @catherinevaz6139
      @catherinevaz6139 5 лет назад +122

      I'm French, and the "le Ghost" made me laugh! You're good!

    • @sam-nk5fu
      @sam-nk5fu 5 лет назад +23

      Catherine Vaz
      Merci beaucoup!

    • @user-kw8ff1fw4t
      @user-kw8ff1fw4t 4 года назад +8

      Glad to find a swiftie here😂😂

    • @woahmicah6549
      @woahmicah6549 4 года назад +30

      Ghost of Nikola Tesla: I know that feel bro

    • @tayloranderson7547
      @tayloranderson7547 4 года назад +6

      Le ghost of Louis price : am i a joke to you 👻

  • @manushkasondhi778
    @manushkasondhi778 3 года назад +151

    shane saying "THEY'RE CALLED ENTS!" immediately when ryan says "'lord of the rings' trees" is something that can be so personal

    • @roxiekooi865
      @roxiekooi865 Год назад +6

      He's gotta defend his relatives, y'know? The Ents and the Squatches, they go way back.

  • @mo-hp3bo
    @mo-hp3bo 3 года назад +255

    ryan bringing up that hes a film major twice in a story about a mans disappearance/death is exactly what id expect from a film major lmao

  • @rheapramith
    @rheapramith 6 лет назад +5275

    *Can we all agree that this was one of the saddest episode of Unsolved we've seen?*

    • @joemegannety1508
      @joemegannety1508 6 лет назад +27

      Rhea Pramith yeah😔

    • @kipperonis
      @kipperonis 6 лет назад +131

      Um no, The Sodder children

    • @kellychapman9811
      @kellychapman9811 6 лет назад +209

      I think its up there but sodder children and jonbenet ramsey are pretty depressing too

    • @juicysatsumabeauty
      @juicysatsumabeauty 6 лет назад +109

      I think the slaughter of a whole family of children is sadder than a guy not getting credit for his invention.

    • @Jedwint
      @Jedwint 6 лет назад +18

      It’s sad that buzzfeed exists

  • @Commedeshommes
    @Commedeshommes 4 года назад +4880

    People Edison stole from:
    -Tesla
    -Joseph Swan, the ACTUAL inventor of the lightbulb
    -Louis LePrince
    -Wilhelm Rontgen, inventor of the XRay machine
    -Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, inventor of the sound recorder
    EDIT: To everyone saying that Rontgen received credit, it is true, but as soon as Edison heard that such an idea was possible, he tried to build his own X-ray machine with the intent on taking credit from Rontgen. He stopped working on his X-ray machine when it killed his assistant Clarence Dally. Thankfully everyone still acknowledges who the real inventor was but it could’ve easily went the other way

    • @Pbg_Gonefishing
      @Pbg_Gonefishing 4 года назад +209

      Before Joseph swan was Warren De la Rue who made the light bulb in 1840 but it wasn't economically cost efficient. But I agree plenty of people made it before Edison got the credit which is bogus.

    • @idkimjusttired3296
      @idkimjusttired3296 4 года назад +82

      honestly i think willhelm rontgen still sorta is known for xray cause in swedish xray is Röntgen, so in sweden he got the name atleast, but i cant deny that edison is thief and an a hole

    • @MakaveliDior
      @MakaveliDior 4 года назад +39

      It's called Röntgen in german speaking areas as well

    • @bravozero6
      @bravozero6 4 года назад +10

      @@idkimjusttired3296 roentgen was a unit of measurement for measurement. Im going to school to become and RT Roentgen is credited for being the father of xray this post is false

    • @debanjanbhattacharjee6410
      @debanjanbhattacharjee6410 4 года назад +26

      Apart from the Xray part, the rest are true. Roentgen is still regarded as the father of xray.

  • @PowerSpirit50
    @PowerSpirit50 3 года назад +87

    I literaly just got that they're called 'movies' because they move.

  • @millenniumaged7512
    @millenniumaged7512 3 года назад +126

    This show is *litteraly* carrying buzzfeed right now.

  • @Lylo541
    @Lylo541 6 лет назад +15097

    Petition to remove Edison from our science books because he was stealing other peoples ideas and finally give the actual inventors the credit they deserve

    • @francespowell6923
      @francespowell6923 6 лет назад +312

      Lylo Heart, not a bad idea.

    • @yanfei5634
      @yanfei5634 6 лет назад +50

      Lylo Heart um no because he still did invent the light bulb

    • @kenda6409
      @kenda6409 6 лет назад +1116

      Yanfei_101 Alissa_101
      He didn't. He stole the idea from another inventor, Nikola Tesla.

    • @angiev8154
      @angiev8154 6 лет назад +146

      +Yanfei_101 Alissa_101. No he didn't.

    • @zairabernal2328
      @zairabernal2328 6 лет назад +591

      Yanfei_101 Alissa_101 even now, everyone is taught he didn't invent the lightbulb. Lightbulbs existed prior, Edison is just credited for the incandescent lightbulb, which functioned better

  • @anjaderose1468
    @anjaderose1468 5 лет назад +1378

    LOUIS LE PRINCE INVENTED MOVIES PASS IT ON!!!

    • @freaked._
      @freaked._ 5 лет назад +6

      Anja de Rose calm down there

    • @mirandagoldstine8548
      @mirandagoldstine8548 5 лет назад +21

      Vive Louis le Prince. The father of cinematography and the movie camera.

    • @sydneylouwho7011
      @sydneylouwho7011 5 лет назад +5

      Anja de Rose LOUIS LE PRINCE INVENTED MOVIES

    • @unitedwestand160
      @unitedwestand160 5 лет назад

      NO. KEEP IT

    • @tmnt3998
      @tmnt3998 5 лет назад

      well... Edward Muybridge was even before him, with his Sallie gardner at a gallop. But that is discutable, because that was made as a some sort of gif, i dont know....

  • @SonicGirlsGeek
    @SonicGirlsGeek 3 года назад +280

    I love how Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Edison were both considered revolutionaries and amazing men, then historians just had enough and publcily released all this information onto the internet. I'm so proud :')

    • @thomasedwardharrison2879
      @thomasedwardharrison2879 2 года назад +31

      As a Thomas I’m insulted that there are so many bad Thomas’s

    • @fcalvaresi
      @fcalvaresi Год назад

      What's wrong about Thomas Jefferson? (I am not an American).

    • @pixel_cookie148
      @pixel_cookie148 Год назад +16

      @@fcalvaresi slave owner, for one. he also had "relationships" (ie, he forced himself upon these women) with his slaves and had at least one baby with them. i don't remember much else bc us history isn't something i rly focus on (scottish lol) but that's the stuff i know off the top of my head

    • @Chris-ks4sw
      @Chris-ks4sw Год назад +3

      ​@@pixel_cookie148 Tons of the founding fathers did that.

    • @sib1930
      @sib1930 Год назад +8

      @@Chris-ks4sw Yet Americans act like they were freedom fighters lol. They were awful

  • @yaseen9044
    @yaseen9044 3 года назад +33

    Side Note:- In 2003, the Paris Police, while going through old archives discovered a photograph of a man who strongly resembled Louis Le Prince drowned in a river near to the tracks where the train Le Prince boarded was supposed to be going through, its most likely Edison's men stole his suitcase in the train itself and threw him out of the train into the river, the date on the photograph was also written around late Sept 1890, around the time Le Prince disappeared.

  • @LittleGirl21100
    @LittleGirl21100 6 лет назад +4908

    This is so sad wtf. He had so much to offer and hes a forgotten name. Long live Louis Le Prince

  • @sebastiangeorgeiorga7122
    @sebastiangeorgeiorga7122 4 года назад +1389

    Thomas Edison: The secret ingredient is crime.

  • @sour__casm
    @sour__casm 2 года назад +97

    My heart aches for this guy. To have spent so much time and money coming up with a revolutionary invention only to disappear and have someone else be known in history as the inventor.

  • @LoneStarCowboy1
    @LoneStarCowboy1 3 года назад +335

    My theory is simple he was robed sometime after his brother saw him last, note that in 1890 and still today Paris was notorious for petty crime like theft and it was not unusual to be robed in Paris especially if you you were not from there. During the robbery, one or more men tried to steal his brief cases which probably escalated into some type of fight between Louis Le Prince and the robbers, probably because Louis knew that important documents were in the brief case and he did not want anyone to steal his idea. The fight probably ended with Louis beaten and the robbers angered after the discover only drawings and nothing in their minds of important value. Now angered and pissed off that Louis did not have anything important in their minds in his briefcase, they then probably proceeded to toss his briefcase and papers along with his either concision or unconscious body into the river. Due either to his injuries or unconscious Louis probably drowned.
    Note: the French police pulled a unidentified man who look very similar to Louis Le Prince from the Seine River the same day he went missing.

    • @stormbringer717
      @stormbringer717 3 года назад +44

      Then this sounds like you solved the case.

    • @poopypants9670
      @poopypants9670 3 года назад +15

      is there a source for the french police thing I'm doing a report on him

    • @LoneStarCowboy1
      @LoneStarCowboy1 3 года назад +2

      @@poopypants9670 no this is my own assumption

    • @tsukijams1127
      @tsukijams1127 3 года назад +3

      woah...this theory is actually good 0-0

    • @roccomarcy
      @roccomarcy 3 года назад +34

      His friends were waiting to pick him up in Paris. This would mean that he would have been "robbed" at some point during his trip to Paris. This raises the question: how could this robbery have gone unnoticed? How could they have dumped his body without anybody else noticing? Not that it matters, but Louis was a large man standing at 6'4...

  • @KGisthename
    @KGisthename 6 лет назад +4126

    Schools should update

    • @mateojames3231
      @mateojames3231 6 лет назад +73

      Mini Panini yeah but my AP history books give too much credit to Edison soo... I wouldn't mind.

    • @hannahnataliemachado1209
      @hannahnataliemachado1209 6 лет назад

      trueeer

    • @jennisney2757
      @jennisney2757 5 лет назад +67

      Maybe its just in america? I learned about this man in one of my film classes in the UK

    • @bbystayarmy5539
      @bbystayarmy5539 5 лет назад +29

      K G no one in my school but my film studies teacher and film study my classmates know that Loui Le Prince was the real creator of it

    • @amandaivy253
      @amandaivy253 5 лет назад +44

      I totally agree. Really in regards to Edison in general, it's known that he stole ideas pretty often so I really think schools should stop giving him all the credit. At the very least mention that it's likely most of what he's known for probably wasn't truly all his work.

  • @francesleones4973
    @francesleones4973 5 лет назад +2785

    Edison - he's that one guy in your team who takes all the credit for a project you all worked on while he did nothing.
    The history books must be updated. Put the names of the rightful inventors next to their inventions! Don't put Edison!
    Update: thank you so much for all the likes. And I just realized that Ryan and Shane could have included Louis Le Prince in their seance session in "Weird and Wonderful World" on their Watcher channel. They could have asked Louis what really happened to him!

    • @user-nx7sd1yi7q
      @user-nx7sd1yi7q 4 года назад +24

      or at least mention them

    • @owen4484
      @owen4484 4 года назад +12

      Louise did the project Edison did the credits

    • @amaristokes779
      @amaristokes779 4 года назад +11

      Edison wouldn’t even have been able to make the lightbulb if it wasn’t for a black man

    • @rkellyslieutenant2005
      @rkellyslieutenant2005 4 года назад +12

      If you live in america then thats a no cause its American history not French history
      I am learning french history and they talk about him most of the time

    • @pog.fr0g637
      @pog.fr0g637 4 года назад +2

      The perfect description of him 😂

  • @chrisp7110
    @chrisp7110 3 года назад +135

    It's clear that Edison stole the idea though. He lived in the area at the time that Louis disappeared along with the briefcase and lastly, I am sure Edison knows the rules of a missing person patent, so he took this time to get it out there before Louis's family did

  • @baymaxD866
    @baymaxD866 2 года назад +30

    Im glad this subject is being covered on such a big platform and gathered so many views. Le Prince deserves all the credit and historical praise

  • @BlaxicanBeautyTV333
    @BlaxicanBeautyTV333 6 лет назад +2011

    Back in high school history, I learned that Thomas Edison didn't even invent the light bulb. From what I remember, Edison had an assistant who invented most of it and then Edison fired him and claimed the invention.

    • @mcbeenerd
      @mcbeenerd 6 лет назад +8

      Maryam Yeah, Thomas Edison was a real asshole. He also destroyed Tesla's legacy too. I don't think he had any qualms about offing people for his own benefit.

    • @GermanDas
      @GermanDas 6 лет назад +151

      Your thinking of Nikola Tesla

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 6 лет назад +31

      God Actually, no, it really was Edison.

    • @GermanDas
      @GermanDas 6 лет назад +164

      Tamaki742 the only thing edison did was make it practical, it's like saying Steve jobs invented smartphones

    • @aiden_milroy
      @aiden_milroy 6 лет назад +21

      No. It was a canadian guy, can't remember the name.

  • @dsdgjj
    @dsdgjj 6 лет назад +733

    moral of the story: thomas edison never did an original thing in his damn life

    • @dsdgjj
      @dsdgjj 6 лет назад +84

      BeastUpp you scored pretty low in reading comprehension, didn't you?

    • @severalgotthatname6356
      @severalgotthatname6356 6 лет назад +9

      Moons_of_Avalon he did make it look like so (like he did invent it) for a long time, though, and that is kind of impressive...

    • @dsdgjj
      @dsdgjj 6 лет назад +3

      seriously can none of you read? or even like…listen to what they're actually saying in the video

    • @kylawhite3842
      @kylawhite3842 6 лет назад +36

      He literally stole everything, I agree with you completely

    • @severalgotthatname6356
      @severalgotthatname6356 6 лет назад +1

      Moons_of_Avalon you're being ironic. Can you even read? Because you're really not getting it

  • @lilwolf33
    @lilwolf33 3 года назад +44

    Edison was a thief. The Simpsons have even stated this in an episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", when they claim Edison was still "inventing" and stole Homer's idea of the electric hammer, and 6-legged chair.

  • @donjuandelanoootch
    @donjuandelanoootch 3 года назад +120

    They did the same thing to tesla

    • @jjjjjj192
      @jjjjjj192 3 года назад +13

      And the original founder of the Tesla car company. Elon Musk bought his way in.

  • @katalukesova1226
    @katalukesova1226 6 лет назад +1540

    I JUST REALIZED WHY THEY ARE CALLED MOVIES OMFG I WAS SO IGNORANT MY WHOLE LIFE

    • @andrea-mf3xn
      @andrea-mf3xn 5 лет назад +35

      Káťa Lukešová because they movee?

    • @kllie5674
      @kllie5674 5 лет назад +39

      I realised when i read ur comment thks man😂

    • @josephl9988
      @josephl9988 5 лет назад +8

      Káťa Lukešová after reading this comment I learned as well

    • @newtwoodbury6333
      @newtwoodbury6333 5 лет назад +18

      I'm so glad I'm not the only one, I felt ridiculous when I made the connection 😂

    • @maniax7517
      @maniax7517 5 лет назад +1

      I don't get it can someone please tell me?

  • @UnPhayzable
    @UnPhayzable 6 лет назад +4418

    Thomas Edison, one of the top 10 Anime Villains

    • @kugicaimp192
      @kugicaimp192 6 лет назад +16

      UnPhayzable ♥♥♥OR MAYBE, IT WAS ACTUALLY THOMAS EDISON, HIMSELF, WHO KILLED LOUI LE PRINCE AND STOLE LOUI'S WORKS. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES WHICH PROVES THAT WE SHOULD NOT ALWAYS SIMPLY EASILY BELIEVE INVENTION CLAIMS BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A BIG POSSIBILITY THAT EVEN LOUI COULD HAVE JUST STOLEN HIS IDEAS FROM SOMEONE ELSE AS WELL. THERE IS ALSO A BIG POSSIBILITY THAT THIS SPECIFIC KIND OF CRAFT HAS ALREADY BEEN EXISTING WITHIN SOME SECRET POWERFUL FAMILIES WITH KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITY INHERITED FROM THEIR GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS SINCE THE FAR ANCIENT PAST, PROBABLY EVEN BEFORE THE GREAT WORLDWIDE FLOOD. THE PRE-FLOOD HUMAN CIVILIZATION WAS VERY POWERFUL AND OVERWHELMINGLY SOPHISTICATED BECAUSE THEY HAD THE 200 ANGELS, AND CHILDREN OF THE 200 ANGELS, LIVING AMONGST THE WHOLE HUMANITY. I AM PRETTY SURE THAT THEIR CRAFTS WERE COMPLETELY FAR MORE SUPERIOR THAN OURS TODAY. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE READ THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHPATER SIX AND THE BOOK OF ENOCH CHAPTER SIX AS WELL. YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT THE ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES AND POLYTHEISTIC PAGAN RELIGIONS. TRY TO READ ANCIENT INDIAN EPICS AS WELL.♥♥♥

    • @Gynobender69
      @Gynobender69 6 лет назад +28

      UnPhayzable WHY ARE YOU EVERY WHERE WTFFFFFF

    • @chimney3554
      @chimney3554 6 лет назад +9

      Drew IKR HE IS THE GOD OF RUclips COMMENTS

    • @minh9026
      @minh9026 6 лет назад

      Drew no dat is
      .

    • @redviper1608
      @redviper1608 6 лет назад +12

      KuGiCa Imp WHY ARE YOU WRITING IN CAPS?!?!?? DO YOU HAVE TOURETTES?!?!!?!?!??

  • @sleepyhead35
    @sleepyhead35 2 года назад +24

    It must've been so painful for Elizabeth to see Edison become famous knowing that she could do nothing

  • @TheDeviIDogg
    @TheDeviIDogg 2 года назад +71

    I feel like we're at a time in history where we could go back and give proper credit to those who actually deserved it the most. Also bizarre to me as I watch these, a lot happened in the world during 1888 and such. Imagine creating moving pictures while the same time something like Jack the Ripper was doin his thing. Like we kind of isolate and look at history piece by piece but a lot happened at the exact same time

  • @1192389
    @1192389 6 лет назад +1180

    "It's got mystery, it's got history, and it's got a train" is how I'm gonna describe my aesthetic from now on

  • @zeddpool
    @zeddpool 5 лет назад +3581

    Tesla stans been knew. Thomas Edison was trash.

    • @decodingari
      @decodingari 5 лет назад +158

      aksjskks i cant breathe thomas is over we been knew

    • @jameserdman4652
      @jameserdman4652 5 лет назад +21

      Always

    • @kats2308
      @kats2308 5 лет назад +32

      fkn preach

    • @thinthle
      @thinthle 5 лет назад +31

      The fucking truth

    • @iihiyori2442
      @iihiyori2442 5 лет назад +136

      thomas edison is cancelled

  • @Allenluvable
    @Allenluvable 2 года назад +24

    I come back to this episode often, and am always filled with rage at the injustice of his name being forgotten, and with sadness at how hard his family continued to fight for him. Louis, I promise if anyone eever brings up Edison as the inventor of moving pictures, I will absolutely correct them.

  • @susanthefish8940
    @susanthefish8940 3 года назад +21

    As someone who has gotten their poems almost stolen, I can assure you it hurts a lot when someone else takes the credit for your creation.

  • @Skullyz1995
    @Skullyz1995 6 лет назад +1574

    Edison was the original Gilderoy Lockhart

    • @aditirao4256
      @aditirao4256 6 лет назад +38

      Skullyz1995 this is genius 😂😂😂 I'm dead

    • @JennaWallgren
      @JennaWallgren 6 лет назад +8

      Oh my gosh

    • @maiavitale8458
      @maiavitale8458 6 лет назад +51

      except he didn't obliviate them instead killed them

    • @aditirao4256
      @aditirao4256 6 лет назад +35

      Maya Adams or maybe he used obliviate on le prince himself so he forgot where he was supposed to go and "disappeared"

    • @maiavitale8458
      @maiavitale8458 6 лет назад +6

      Aditi Rao haha good point but it's more likely he killed him

  • @aishwaryarawat8337
    @aishwaryarawat8337 6 лет назад +3737

    *_i like how passionate Ryan is about this case_*

    • @Tamaki742
      @Tamaki742 6 лет назад +90

      aishwarya rawat Well, he said it himself, he was a film student.

    • @carolinaelichalt7913
      @carolinaelichalt7913 6 лет назад +86

      Ikr it's so cute "if someone were to ask me who the tru founding father of the movies was" aw

    • @an0n625
      @an0n625 6 лет назад +53

      i like how passionate you are w/ this comment..with the bold and italics

    • @aryangoyal8123
      @aryangoyal8123 6 лет назад +8

      aishwarya rawat Kind of off topic but.... How do you type in italics??

    • @aishwaryarawat8337
      @aishwaryarawat8337 6 лет назад +4

      Aryan Goyal you put an underscore before and after the text

  • @koiphobia
    @koiphobia 3 года назад +42

    btw they moved the old episodes to the buzzfeed channel so the comments were reset

  • @okthen623
    @okthen623 3 года назад +15

    I don'y know why but the fact that guy who invented moving pictures was like 6'4" with a huge mustache makes me happy

  • @erinturner9618
    @erinturner9618 6 лет назад +526

    it just hit me that we call them “movies” because they move. English is so lame and I love it

    • @erinturner9618
      @erinturner9618 6 лет назад +35

      I commented this before they mentioned it in the video. And I will also be referring to my shoes as “steppies” from now on.

    • @niamhcostello4766
      @niamhcostello4766 6 лет назад +1

      I call them films 😅

    • @tophers3756
      @tophers3756 6 лет назад +4

      You just made that connection?

    • @maddie3647
      @maddie3647 6 лет назад +12

      When they put sound in movies they were called talkies lol

    • @feelinglostinthepeople
      @feelinglostinthepeople 6 лет назад +15

      What about "walkie talkies"? Literally can "walkie" and "talkie"

  • @chelseagranger6434
    @chelseagranger6434 4 года назад +3168

    this one was really interesting. it never ceases to amaze me how much history books actually teach "history" incorrectly.

    • @SuDoesThings
      @SuDoesThings 3 года назад +56

      I don't think it's incorrectly taught for the most part. Rather different parts in the world will tell it differently depending on what side they were on and their perspective. Great example for this the 80 year war between Spain and the Netherlands. I was taught that us the dutch were finally free and spain was oppressing the dutch and mistreating them. But someone from spain might tell it differently. Really you'll get what really happened if you take all the sides and pick out all the facts that BOTH or more parties all agree up on

    • @kinggenderman1874
      @kinggenderman1874 3 года назад +39

      The USA does this horribly

    • @palinanavitskaya6133
      @palinanavitskaya6133 3 года назад +54

      You know what they say, "history is written by the victors"

    • @margot7048
      @margot7048 3 года назад

      Pooooooo

    • @iaminpainauchocolat9300
      @iaminpainauchocolat9300 3 года назад +7

      Yeah. You should compare a british secondary school book to an Irish one... it's quite telling.

  • @_sunchildd
    @_sunchildd 3 года назад +38

    louis would be so proud of your moving picture guys :’)

  • @Ryan-gz9xg
    @Ryan-gz9xg 9 месяцев назад +5

    I can’t possibly believe he’d run away. He was about to present his dream invention

  • @littlefirefox1880
    @littlefirefox1880 4 года назад +1578

    Murders in the past can be summed up like this- as long as you weren’t STILL at the crime scene, there is an 80% chance you wouldn’t get caught

    • @hannahisagoose
      @hannahisagoose 4 года назад +80

      I feel like I could get away with murder
      *for legal reasons thats a joke*

    • @conchtalks
      @conchtalks 3 года назад +30

      John Mulaney? I assume?

    • @echo0497
      @echo0497 3 года назад +16

      Is that a John Mulaney reference I see? 👀

    • @anaifra
      @anaifra 3 года назад +69

      “Sir, there is a pool of blood left by the murderer. What should I do?”
      “Hmm, gross. *Mop it up!* “

    • @SonicGirlsGeek
      @SonicGirlsGeek 3 года назад +7

      And they'd what, shoot Edison into the side of the wall, like were bullets free back then?

  • @laurenpaige8493
    @laurenpaige8493 6 лет назад +765

    Fun Fact: Edison never invented anything.

  • @Listening_Books12345
    @Listening_Books12345 2 года назад +25

    NO ONE EVER FORGET THAT EDISON MURDERED A WHOLE ELEPHANT TO DEATH

  • @sadcat4825
    @sadcat4825 3 года назад +244

    comments disappeared? _all hail the watcher, baby_ 🕵️

    • @MzferNebula
      @MzferNebula 3 года назад +3

      How u get that fancy bended thing

    • @littlevaquero5516
      @littlevaquero5516 3 года назад +3

      @@MzferNebula italics

    • @MzferNebula
      @MzferNebula 3 года назад

      @@littlevaquero5516 how u get the italic

    • @isimpforbyakuyatogami.5456
      @isimpforbyakuyatogami.5456 3 года назад +3

      @@MzferNebula use an _underscore_ at the start of the sentence/word and at the end

    • @MzferNebula
      @MzferNebula 3 года назад +4

      @@isimpforbyakuyatogami.5456 _ah k_

  • @kittychesire3533
    @kittychesire3533 6 лет назад +594

    Next week on Buzzfeed Unsolved: Edison Stirkes Again: Who killed Nikola Telsa?

    • @Thecuriousincident1
      @Thecuriousincident1 6 лет назад +11

      Coronary thrombosis.

    • @MissImpertinence
      @MissImpertinence 6 лет назад +12

      Double Guitars Agreed. I mean the man was well into his 80s, hardly slept, and ate an incredibly limited diet. I'm shocked he lived to such an advanced age to begin with.

    • @Thecuriousincident1
      @Thecuriousincident1 6 лет назад

      silverbird58 Mind Blown 😮

    • @ablurida
      @ablurida 4 года назад +1

      the pigeon he fell in love with

  • @jazzy_macaron9502
    @jazzy_macaron9502 5 лет назад +1188

    I've never truly trusted or liked Thomas Edison, due to the things he did as a man, this just made me dislike him even more. I'm with Shane on this, I wouldn't be surprised if it were Edison's goons

    • @jameserdman4652
      @jameserdman4652 5 лет назад +41

      velvet sequoia Edison was not a good person at all. He took immense pleasure in other’s suffering, especially at the hands of his own invention, the electric chair. He also enjoyed electrocuting animals to death to make examples of them.

    • @pcarebear1
      @pcarebear1 5 лет назад +1

      Honestly this reminds me of the Space race and today's tech races (i.e. 5G war). I think countries actively competing and industrial spies were a real thing during the Industrial Boom. I think he was another victim like Tesla, Edison was just happy to reap the rewards through the U.S. legal system.

    • @better_call_saul5237
      @better_call_saul5237 5 лет назад

      Yeah I didn’t like him either

  • @ryancornwell8563
    @ryancornwell8563 3 года назад +23

    If Louis was in debt by around 80,000 and was going to get an inheritance of 140,000 I don’t think he would just disappear somewhere

    • @m.syauqiabdurahman2798
      @m.syauqiabdurahman2798 Год назад +2

      Plus, he is about to make a great breakthrough with his moving pictures camera. So i don't think he is so upset with the debt to the point he simply wants too dissapear.

  • @salmonswan9814
    @salmonswan9814 2 года назад +15

    I hate the fact that Edison enjoyed his fame and money when he was alive while the family of Le Prince fought for the recognition the man truly deserved. Damn u Thomas.

  • @vitocorleone1462
    @vitocorleone1462 6 лет назад +541

    I swear Edison just stole everyone else's ideas and claimed them as his own

    • @Bionicmissy1
      @Bionicmissy1 6 лет назад +58

      John Smith didnt he do something similar with tesla?

    • @demetri4160
      @demetri4160 6 лет назад +53

      John Smith he's like the 1800s drake

    • @vitocorleone1462
      @vitocorleone1462 6 лет назад +56

      Bionicmissy1 Yeah tesla invented the light, and Edison invented a glass bulb to put over it. And somehow everyone thinks that Edison invented the lightbulb

    • @Lilly-pb9pf
      @Lilly-pb9pf 6 лет назад +1

      I GUFFAWED

    • @Stark-Raving
      @Stark-Raving 6 лет назад +3

      Don't worry, JP Morgan tricked him out of his company

  • @huntrrams
    @huntrrams 6 лет назад +2170

    So Louis is also the Godfather of modern Gifs?

  • @peanutbutterBrisket99
    @peanutbutterBrisket99 2 года назад +15

    "It's got history, it's got mystery, and it's got trains."
    *I like trains.*

    • @lydiaboll2872
      @lydiaboll2872 2 месяца назад +1

      I both love and hate that I know what this is referencing.

  • @ziggystardustxo
    @ziggystardustxo 9 месяцев назад +3

    This was briefly mentioned in my film class!!! So excited they did a video about it, I’ve been itching to know more.

  • @rosscojane
    @rosscojane 6 лет назад +4001

    Movies doesn’t sound like a real word now...

    • @acruzerstratman
      @acruzerstratman 6 лет назад +12

      Kiamatra TT don’t*

    • @rosscojane
      @rosscojane 6 лет назад +80

      Andres Cruz okay, which sentence makes you sound like a psychopath:
      1. Movies does not sound like a real word now.
      2. Movies do not sound like a real word now.
      🤯🤫

    • @datguy1250
      @datguy1250 6 лет назад +7

      Kiamatra TT what the hell are u talking about you can't spell

    • @rosscojane
      @rosscojane 6 лет назад +68

      Blake Billard I think you’re confused. I’m being corrected on grammar not spelling. Even though I used it in the correct context. Buh bye.

    • @datguy1250
      @datguy1250 6 лет назад

      Kiamatra TT no you didn't actually you used in the wrong context it didn't even make sense you were being corrected because your stupid

  • @mauriciomedina2629
    @mauriciomedina2629 5 лет назад +1527

    From now on i will always correct people by saying *Louis Le Prince* was the true inventor and father of film. Hopefully this video blows up, helps, spreads and brings Louis back to life with his name in the history books as the true father of film.

  • @itarfer
    @itarfer 2 года назад +17

    "Well if this other guy invented moving pictures why have I never heard of him?" Bruh... wait till I tell you that Edison didn't invent the lightbulb. It's almost like... our history books sell a very specific narrative that often doesn't line up with fact or objectivity 🤔

  • @kariwitakdoe
    @kariwitakdoe 3 года назад +4

    The way they vibe off each other is so priceless and hilarious. Love these guys

  • @fennxfox6241
    @fennxfox6241 6 лет назад +648

    This is why I have no respect for Edison as an inventor. He was an incredible businessman, even selling off electricity to the dismay of Tesla, but not an inventor. He even bought the patent for the lightbulb, then paid people to make it better.

    • @ria7330
      @ria7330 6 лет назад +34

      Exactly, he uses the laws to his advantage to steal others ideas.

    • @ria7330
      @ria7330 6 лет назад

      Schools should teach that though Edison is the legal inventor, Prince made it first.

    • @theworldisbackwards4428
      @theworldisbackwards4428 6 лет назад

      Terence Andrei Calma lol

    • @MW-pb2gf
      @MW-pb2gf 6 лет назад +12

      Terence Andrei Calma as well as cats and dogs. edison was just a horrible person all the way around and does not deserve the respect and recognition so many people give him.

    • @ogstreaky2728
      @ogstreaky2728 6 лет назад +1

      That why I live be the quote by j Cole “if they don’t know your dreams than they can’t shoot em down” best to do everything yourself because other people would scheme and take advantage

  • @lahirstellar
    @lahirstellar 6 лет назад +730

    My respect and admiration for Thomas Edison just went down the drain. Louis Le Prince is the REAL MVP.

    • @scp--297
      @scp--297 6 лет назад +4

      Arvi Marie
      Yes!

    • @Anayaah421
      @Anayaah421 6 лет назад +2

      Arvi Marie yepp

    • @Diamondsmuggler
      @Diamondsmuggler 6 лет назад +2

      Arvi Marie I still respect him

    • @radioactiveood
      @radioactiveood 6 лет назад +43

      Went down long time ago when I heard the story about Tesla

    • @definitelynotabby8555
      @definitelynotabby8555 6 лет назад +31

      Arvi Marie read about all the stuff he nicked from Tesla. He was a business man and a bully

  • @divye.ruhela
    @divye.ruhela 3 года назад +25

    Edison certainly chose his thefts wisely! He must've been pretty good at greasing the palms of the right people too, as he got away unscathed on so many occasions. This is soo sad, I mean this guy is the reason why we're watching videos on RUclips.

  • @naiarerich2926
    @naiarerich2926 3 года назад +5

    Never heard of him but I sure had heard several stories of this "businessman" Thomas Edison stealing credits from real inventors. Louis Le Prince and several others need the credits they rightfully deserve. Great job covering this Ryan!

  • @aauuddrreeee
    @aauuddrreeee 4 года назад +1496

    My theory is that when Louie boarded that train, the train traveled into an alternate universe where Louie showed his motion picture and was crowned the father of moving pictures.

  • @Mokeyfrog
    @Mokeyfrog 6 лет назад +786

    DO EDISON FOR RUINING HISTORY!!!!!

  • @sharkee420
    @sharkee420 3 года назад +17

    i cannot fully explain how hard shane saying, “let’s kill this man” has been making me laugh.

  • @thepopestar9135
    @thepopestar9135 3 года назад +15

    Edison looks like someone who would do something like this

  • @maverickd6214
    @maverickd6214 4 года назад +652

    The next time someone says Edison invented Movies, show them this video

  • @dakotarain7745
    @dakotarain7745 5 лет назад +498

    Thomas Edison didn’t invent movies, they should change the history books for that and give Louis Le Prince proper recognition

    • @amberugur6476
      @amberugur6476 5 лет назад +3

      Costs too much money to rewrite History. Cross the name out and write it in Yourself! Bam!

    • @riakirkbride9766
      @riakirkbride9766 4 года назад

      Try a non usa history book, he isn't the 'father of film' in Britain, or France I'd imagine! This isn't what's taught in Britain.

  • @Abraxos_xWildflowers
    @Abraxos_xWildflowers Год назад +2

    I FOUND THIS CASE SO FASCINATING THAT IM DOING A PODCAST ON IT FOR A PROJECT IN COLLEGE. IM SO EXCITED TO LEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT IT, BUT IM WATCHING THIS AGAIN TO REFRESH MY MEMORY!! AHHHH IM SO EXCITED EEEEEEEE!!!!!

  • @UNSOLVABLE
    @UNSOLVABLE 3 года назад +1

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  • @kathryndelacruz1023
    @kathryndelacruz1023 5 лет назад +3319

    *day in class*
    Teacher: okay class who invented movies?
    Me: LOUIE LE PRINCE
    teacher: no Thomas Edison
    Me:*triggered*

    • @prentiss-convict
      @prentiss-convict 5 лет назад +48

      Kat DLC GTFO OF SCHOOL MATE!

    • @carolinedavis4723
      @carolinedavis4723 5 лет назад +126

      That actually happened to me in AP US History class.😂

    • @thesaxophonist343
      @thesaxophonist343 5 лет назад +110

      That actually happened to me but with the light bulb. I got sent to the principle office and they had to look it up

    • @kennythekoala4759
      @kennythekoala4759 5 лет назад +31

      The Saxophonist Under zero circumstances would that ever actually happen

    • @barbarastrizan3648
      @barbarastrizan3648 5 лет назад +14

      The Saxophonist on today’s edition of things that never happened

  • @atharvchaudhary7905
    @atharvchaudhary7905 6 лет назад +495

    I never liked Edison.. He used to harrass Teslaa who could have changed the world. That guy had issues from childhood.

    • @Quaquadaqu
      @Quaquadaqu 6 лет назад +3

      Atharv Chaudhary Tesla was a lunatic who was nearly incoherent by the end of his life.

    • @atharvchaudhary7905
      @atharvchaudhary7905 6 лет назад +4

      死んだ赤 He was completely insane at the end as he started loving pigeons but sometimes old age does that to u and u can never question his genius..

    • @atharvchaudhary7905
      @atharvchaudhary7905 6 лет назад +11

      Elon Musk doesn't named his company after Edison

    • @tinakinz123
      @tinakinz123 6 лет назад +2

      He killed many animals with electricity not just a elephant.

    • @amoonsjyrky4513
      @amoonsjyrky4513 6 лет назад +17

      I come from the same country as Tesla and I have to tell ya, overhear we have museums and events dedicated to him where we eveb display things that Edison stole from him. His hometown is very proud and they kept his house in its original state.

  • @applejuice69.
    @applejuice69. 3 года назад +1

    that video of the people walking is so wholesome they look so excited about this invention

  • @Canvas_Scribbles
    @Canvas_Scribbles Год назад +9

    19:49 I'm glad that Ryan has such a positive view of humanity, it's what makes him perfect for this series. BUT as someone who's seen my mom get death threats from her uncles because they just _thought_ she would ask for her share of inheritance, ppl would definitely be willing to kill someone for a few extra bucks. The ones giving the death threats are rich af while we're from a lower middle class family.I still think Albert didn't kill Louis tho because of Lizzie's memoir.

  • @rachelnewman271
    @rachelnewman271 6 лет назад +451

    We learnt in school of Louis inventing it not Edison, so I guess I have a good art and film teacher 😂

  • @scoobydont
    @scoobydont 6 лет назад +925

    My hatred of Thomas Edison gets stronger and stronger with each passing day

    • @TheSpasticAvenger
      @TheSpasticAvenger 6 лет назад +9

      You do realize that if you work for a company they OWN any ideas that you come up with, while working for them? Prince isn't in that category but Tesla is, and any other employees that he "stole" from.

    • @Wonder-Ernie
      @Wonder-Ernie 6 лет назад +11

      I though i was the only one, edison was true definitition of evil, i would have killed him if i lived in that time, i'll spend my time in prison i don't care i follow my own moralisk tone without doubt! This fucking guy should have died a horrible death, give me a time machine!!!!!!

    • @Drowninginantimatter
      @Drowninginantimatter 5 лет назад +3

      TheSpasticAvenger yah it’s still morally icky today

    • @oisinmcilroy3328
      @oisinmcilroy3328 5 лет назад +12

      TheSpasticAvenger Yea the company can take credit for the idea but thats not to say the CEO or the owner can. So the Edinson Illumination Company couldve taken credit for Tesla's ideas but not Thomas Edinson himself

    • @missMichellePower
      @missMichellePower 5 лет назад +2

      Lmao I like how you word things

  • @EternaResplandiente
    @EternaResplandiente 9 месяцев назад +1

    This is my favorite episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved!

  • @nikitax5279
    @nikitax5279 5 дней назад

    i'm a film student and learned about this case in my studies some years ago. hoping that is the case for all of us and the Le Prince family receives the recognition they deserve.

  • @Rayowag
    @Rayowag 6 лет назад +2864

    I mean Edison also fucked around with Tesla's inventions as far as I know, so I'm really not suprised about him being involved in this 🤔

    • @gensearcaigh4738
      @gensearcaigh4738 6 лет назад

      Edison was a fucking selfish-ass trash-ass greedy monster and Tesla for sure never got the recognition he deserved. I literally didn't even learn about Tesla in school ffs.

    • @LunaDelTuna
      @LunaDelTuna 6 лет назад +232

      Exactly! Tesla's electricity was supposed to be free and energy efficient. Edison's direct current (combustible) electricity is actually harmful to the environment in comparisons to Tesla's alternating current which was in a sense using the electromagnetic fields of the earth in a way that was harmless. Also, the reason Edison's idea won over Tesla's is because people would have to be charged to use it, meaning more money for the people providing it. If you are interested you should look up the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, solely the middle one where scientists are starting to believe it was used as a type of electricity for the civilization, JUST like Tesla's tower.

    • @michaelhenry3234
      @michaelhenry3234 6 лет назад +21

      If Tesla's electricity is harmless why aren't we using it to fix our problems?

    • @ria7330
      @ria7330 6 лет назад +7

      It isn't, it also wasnt proven to accually work

    • @LunaDelTuna
      @LunaDelTuna 6 лет назад +107

      Because he wasn't going to charge people to use it, like I clearly stated earlier. People (by people I mean the one's controlling our technology) don't want to provide us free anything because then they would not be making any money. It's pretty simple.

  • @robynobrien3519
    @robynobrien3519 6 лет назад +1053

    Adolphe was just trying to root for his dad and he ends up dead how unfair

    • @marianafernandez8731
      @marianafernandez8731 6 лет назад +88

      Just like Phillip Hamilton, died protecting his fathers legacy 😭

    • @auroragalactica3969
      @auroragalactica3969 6 лет назад +22

      Mariana Fernandez True, except Adolphe's dad was too dead to encourage him to do it.

    • @notyue3747
      @notyue3747 6 лет назад +21

      Sad thing.. he's a good son :'(

    • @Biamazing
      @Biamazing 6 лет назад +3

      Sept huit neuf... sept huit neuf..

    • @mak1675
      @mak1675 6 лет назад +2

      You do realize Hitler killed many put people in jail for no reason he was a horrible person way worse he chooses to take his life so he wouldn’t go to jail he even took over country’s so nicely like to tell you to shut up 🤐

  • @dbyron3824
    @dbyron3824 3 года назад +2

    At least you guys are sharing his story to your audience

  • @igodgaming1705
    @igodgaming1705 3 года назад +12

    People Edison stole from:
    -Tesla
    -Joseph Swan, the ACTUAL inventor of the lightbulb
    -Louis LePrince
    -Wilhelm Rontgen, inventor of the XRay machine
    -Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, inventor of the sound recorder

    • @julesverne4561
      @julesverne4561 24 дня назад

      Wait what? I didn't realise people thought Edison invented the Xray. It's is called a Röntgen photo in my language!