Most Everything You Know About Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is Probably Wrong
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For most of history between the point Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison were respectively doing their things to the present day, if you asked just about anyone which of these men were greater, you’d likely have gotten a response akin to “Nikola who? …I mean, Edison of course? He and God gave us light!” That said, if you asked someone when both were in their prime, you may have gotten a more mixed answer with, contrary to popular belief, Tesla in his day one of the most preeminent celebrity scientists in the world along with Edison. At least until extremely modern times when the internet masses have jumped on the Nikola Tesla hype train and generally vilified Edison as nothing but a charlatan, and someone largely responsible for Tesla’s fall from grace. But what is the truth here? Were either or even potentially both nothing but media hyping narcissists taking credit for others’ work? Were either or potentially both actually great men of history? What is the story between them and why are they so often compared? And overall, which one was actually a greater cog in the human technological advancement machine? And before you go answering this in the comments based on your current knowledge of the pair, let us caution you because in the history of researching and writing on all manner of topics to the tune of over 5,000 articles on our Todayifoundout website and over 2,000 videos here, we have never found any topic we’ve covered more rife with widespread and generally accepted myths when it came to BOTH the individuals we are going to cover today. So, dear viewers, get out your dinner and snacks or, if you’re watching this on the porcelain throne, prepare to have your legs fall thoroughly asleep while others in your household begin to wonder if you’ve died in there, because we are going to leave no stone unturned in order to try to rectify the rampant misinformation on both men
Author: Daven Hiskey
Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Daven Hiskey
0:00 Intro
3:38 The Myth of the Edison vs Tesla Feud (And the Many Myths Embedded)
14:48 Why Tesla Stopped Working for Edison
17:40 The Love of Tesla's Life
19:57 War of the Currents Myth
33:20 Did Edison Torpedo Tesla's Invention of Radar?
36:23 What Tesla and Edison Had to Say About Each Other
42:46 The Real Story of Nikola Tesla
47:25 Tesla's Visions
55:48 King of the Castle, A Master of His Domain
1:13:53 Tesla Coil
1:15:36 Magnifying Transmitter
1:16:37 X-Rays
1:17:17 Neon Lamp
1:18:04 Earthquake Machine
1:19:27 Making Students Bright
1:20:18 Solving the Enigma of Death
1:23:29 The Thought Camera
1:24:05 The Ozone Device
1:24:25 Tesla's Rising and Falling Fame
1:34:18 Remote Control Boat
1:36:08 Inventing Radio
1:40:56 Ending the Tour and Rocky Mountain High
1:43:20 Talking to Aliens
1:52:35 The Tesla World System
1:58:45 Tesla's Tower and Downfall
2:11:48 A Breakdown
2:13:13 The Tesla Turbine
2:17:03 The Bizarro Years
2:23:49 Tesla vs Einstein
2:26:13 Tesla's Peculiar Habits
2:31:23 Tesla's Legacy
2:40:20 Thomas Edison
2:42:27 A 12 Year Old on a Mission
2:46:51 You'll Put Your Eye Out
2:49:17 Relentless Optimism
2:52:10 The Life You Save May Be Your Own
2:55:14 Whoopsadoodle
2:57:35 First Invention and Life Lessons
3:00:35 Making a Million Dollars By Keeping His Mouth Shut
3:05:17 A Kid In a Candy Shop And The Next Great Invention
3:07:09 Edison's Actual Greatest Invention
3:10:56 Did He Actually Invent Hello?
3:13:10 Inventing The First Device to Play Back Sound
3:18:44 The Real Story of the Lightbulb
3:26:44 His Accidental Inventions That Massively Changed the World That Nobody Talks About
3:29:21 More Power Mister Scott!
3:30:41 A Death and an Adorable Nerdy Marriage Proposal
3:35:38 The Future of Inventing
3:38:14 The Motion Picture
3:41:02 Edison the Miner
3:42:43 Electric Cars
3:46:21 Stepping Back
3:47:56 Do No Harm And More WWI
3:50:07 His Last Work and Death
3:50:59 How Much was Edison and How Much was Other People's Work?
3:54:07 The Face of the Brand
3:54:44 Working Style and what Did Edison s Workers Think of Him?
3:57:53 Working Environment
4:01:38 Stealing Ideas Part 2
4:03:34 Parents and a Ruthless Businessman
4:08:53 The Truth About Killing Animals
4:09:39 The Elephant Killing Myth
4:12:39 The Real Story of the War of the Currents and the Animal Thing
4:16:51 The Truth About the X-Ray
4:19:17 Back to the Truth About the War of the Currents, Animal Thing, and Electric Chair
4:25:29 Summing Up the Animal Killing Thing
4:26:56 Summing Edison Up
4:29:54 Who was Greater? Edison vs Tesla
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Very surprised at this hit piece towards Tesla....4 hours just to hear you slam Tesla and low key praise Edison business acumen
Just telling it how it is. We tried REALLY hard to find good things to say about Tesla. Dug super deep. In the end... We just mostly quoted the man himself for two hours about all his work and himself and full, long quotes, not cherry picking.... If that comes across as a hit piece, well, you can see why he fell from grace rather quickly in his own time too. Big fans of Tesla before actually doing a deep dive into him. Major disappointment. Edison was a pleasant surprise. -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut I think you will find in America that we have a very different opinion of Edison. Its obvious you cherry picked Edison. You didn't mention any of his ruthless business tactics and the things you did mentioned was mention in passing. As a long time fan(who will remain a fan) Im disappointed in this review.
And than to say Tesla didn't invent anything ....smh wow this ain't it
We never said Tesla didn't invent anything. Quite the opposite. We spent over 2 hours talking about his inventions very explicitly... -Daven
Holy shit I was thirteen minutes in and thought “this was a good one, really cleared up the myths..” then saw the scrubber bar barely moved. Love it.
4.5 hours and it's NOT just a compilation of previous episodes??
LETS GO!
Pretty impressive for Simon to read a script for four and a half hours straight with no breaks at all, but I'm starting to think Kevin is the one with the dungeon.
@@vyvianalcott1681 Oh he absolutely didn't do this with no breaks at all. Just because you don't see him walk away or coffee cups appearing and disappearing on his desks doesn't mean this is all one cut - after all there's a great many images inserted that would hide cuts where Simon paused.
@@trishapellis It was a joke.
40m in and i was like damn simon really put in the time on this one... then i looked and noticed the actual length, LIKE DAMN LETS GO SIMON !
bro I thought my RUclips glitched, I swear when I clicked on the thumbnail it said "43 minutes" I open the video and see 4 hours, I was so confused lol
"Nerds gonna Nerd when in groups." -A Legend
Four and a half hours?! I’m all in for long form content, but holy cow, I might have to go on the payroll for this one.
You should have seen how long to research and write it! 😋-Daven
This, after a 12 HOUR "Decoding The Unknown"? And a 3.5 hour "Casual Criminalist"? What's going on Simon?
@@TodayIFoundOutTesla was nucking futs.
The crazy thing is people say he got crazy in his last couple decades to explain his wild claims there... But honestly, his writings and things weren't really any different than in his supposed prime. 🙃 Not sure he was actually crazy, ever, just kind of lived in his own head and a bit full of himself and absolutely sure he was right about basically everything he thought no matter how much reality contradicted it. -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut Did y'all do a 2+ hour video on Telsa & Edison a few months ago? Is this an expansion?
"I have built, demonstrated and used it."
"Err... in your head?"
"Yes."
0:00 Intro
3:38 The Myth of the Edison vs Tesla Feud (And the Many Myths Embedded)
14:48 Why Tesla Stopped Working for Edison
17:40 The Love of Tesla's Life
19:57 War of the Currents Myth
33:20 Did Edison Torpedo Tesla's Invention of Radar?
36:23 What Tesla and Edison Had to Say About Each Other
42:46 The Real Story of Nikola Tesla
47:25 Tesla's Visions
55:48 King of the Castle, A Master of His Domain
1:13:53 Tesla Coil
1:15:36 Magnifying Transmitter
1:16:37 X-Rays
1:17:17 Neon Lamp
1:18:04 Earthquake Machine
1:19:27 Making Students Bright
1:20:18 Solving the Enigma of Death
1:23:29 The Thought Camera
1:24:05 The Ozone Device
1:24:25 Tesla's Rising and Falling Fame
1:34:18 Remote Control Boat
1:36:08 Inventing Radio
1:40:56 Ending the Tour and Rocky Mountain High
1:43:20 Talking to Aliens
1:52:35 The Tesla World System
1:58:45 Tesla's Tower and Downfall
2:11:48 A Breakdown
2:13:13 The Tesla Turbine
2:17:03 The Bizarro Years
2:23:49 Tesla vs Einstein
2:26:13 Tesla's Peculiar Habits
2:31:23 Tesla's Legacy
2:40:20 Thomas Edison
2:42:27 A 12 Year Old on a Mission
2:46:51 You'll Put Your Eye Out
2:49:17 Relentless Optimism
2:52:10 The Life You Save May Be Your Own
2:55:14 Whoopsadoodle
2:57:35 First Invention and Life Lessons
3:00:35 Making a Million Dollars By Keeping His Mouth Shut
3:05:17 A Kid In a Candy Shop And The Next Great Invention
3:07:09 Edison's Actual Greatest Invention
3:10:56 Did He Actually Invent Hello?
3:13:10 Inventing The First Device to Play Back Sound
3:18:44 The Real Story of the Lightbulb
3:26:44 His Accidental Inventions That Massively Changed the World That Nobody Talks About
3:29:21 More Power Mister Scott!
3:30:41 A Death and an Adorable Nerdy Marriage Proposal
3:35:38 The Future of Inventing
3:38:14 The Motion Picture
3:41:02 Edison the Miner
3:42:43 Electric Cars
3:46:21 Stepping Back
3:47:56 Do No Harm And More WWI
3:50:07 His Last Work and Death
3:50:59 How Much was Edison and How Much was Other People's Work?
3:54:07 The Face of the Brand
3:54:44 Working Style and what Did Edison s Workers Think of Him?
3:57:53 Working Environment
4:01:38 Stealing Ideas Part 2
4:03:34 Parents and a Ruthless Businessman
4:08:53 The Truth About Killing Animals
4:09:39 The Elephant Killing Myth
4:12:39 The Real Story of the War of the Currents and the Animal Thing
4:16:51 The Truth About the X-Ray
4:19:17 Back to the Truth About the War of the Currents, Animal Thing, and Electric Chair
4:25:29 Summing Up the Animal Killing Thing
4:26:56 Summing Edison Up
4:29:54 Who was Greater? Edison vs Tesla
Hell yeah
Thank you for this, Simon. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
1:39:51 The irony of Tesla fans claiming he invented something because he patented something tangential to it.
This is one of my favorite if not my favorite video. Long form ❤❤❤❤
From someone who's almost completed the entire Whistlerverse, I've only a few old bio and geographics and old BBs to get through.. Long stuff like this is a blessing, I work from home and am very used to spending 8hrs a day 5 days a week playing anything from the Whistlerverse while I work
Same
My fave thing to listen to at work for sure.
Everyone in the comments talking about how long this video or answering the question title and I’m over here like “Tesla was in love with a pigeon” 🤯🤯🤯😂😂😂🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
The things a man would do for the love of a good pidgeon. 🕊
Check out "Strange Beains and genius." Many of our brilliant minds were very eccentric.
Love all the extra information regarding who the "real" inventors of various pieces of technology were. So refreshing to see the less well known getting some of the limelight rather than the focus on the usual suspects.
It's a shame there's so much hostility around these two great men. People trying to trash their reputations, from one side or the other, is just ridiculous. They were both tremendously intelligent in their own way, and both of them should be celebrated by everyone. It's becoming all too common for this sort of thing though. Everything has to become a competition rather than enjoying both sides of a thing.
Kind of making me proud that I had a kid's book all about Michael Faraday as a child, not Tesla. This was growing up in 90s London, England, to be fair.
Agree; love hearing about all the different interweaving contributions. Utterly fascinating how it all snowballed and bounced off of each other's work.
Well said
Yes light bulb invented by others, made first practical lasting bulb. Thank you for clearing up about hype.
I feel Simons writers are having a dick swinging competitions on who can write the longest script
Excellent. I have night shift baby duty so I have to up the next 5 hours. Guess what im watching. Lets go
Edit: gonna lose the channel heart for editing but worth it. very informative and helped show me that I bought into misinformation. Sad to see all the comments who are offended by fact being presented. The world we live in now I guess. As a southern american, im sorry for some of the “merica” views in some of these comments.
Hour and a half in and all I know is Tesla really liked the smell of his own farts.
And fell in love with a pigeon
@@ben5056I too.. loved a pigeon once.
@@stevencatone my condolences
Yeah, that was easily the hardest bit to listen to.
Any time the narrator isn't Tesla, the video is absolutely riveting and fascinating.
He invented farts 💨
It finally came! Just in time to fall asleep. 😅 I do appreciate the dedication you and Simon have put into this channel over the years! My thirst for knowledge is always satiated whenever y'all upload.
4.5 hours someone better have came😂
@@dennislosee that, or visited the doctor.
Thank you for making this. I learned so much. At first i thought it was going to be a compilation, wow, I was hooked. Please do more of this. I was a Tesla myth guy for years, this was fascinating. Thanks again Fact Boy.
I’m loving this, about half way through now. Maybe Simon should start another channel for very long content, called like ‘Deep Cuts’, ‘Diving down the Rabbit Hole’, or just “Simon, Unapologetically Unabridged’
Hopefully this signals a turning point for this channel... Used to look forward to new videos on "TIFO" that said the short video format has become somewhat pedestrian...
Awesome job on the video. Really well put together.
This is awesome. I'm super stoked to learn about this. Thanks so much! :)
Finally. You would not believe how much hate I’ve gotten for daring to say “Tesla was a smart guy, but he’s not a super genius”
I became a fan of Tesla, and learned about the beef between him and Edison, from the song "Edison's Medicine" by the band "Tesla"....yeah I guess Im a bit old...
I dig y'all's super -long format videos. I do a bit of driving and these videos are great for that. Thank you.
The 'Beef' between them never actually existed, it's been fabricated over type.
We were once a fan of Tesla. You cannot study the man and his work in depth and remain so. He was such a huge letdown. Edison was so much the opposite. Shocking how much he did. This is why this video is so long. Clearing the record. -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut Tesla had his quirks, but he was never a thief like Edison. He was a saint compared with that money grabbing filth.
Come to Croatia and Serbia to learn about Tesla.
Epic! I learned quite alot. Thank you for putting this info together in a understandable format. Best infotainment I have seen in awhile.
Thanks! :-) -Daven
I do not believe you really did a four hour episode holy bananas
Listen to this while setting up electric fence on my farm today, seemed too hilarious not to.
(old-style) energy meters in Germany are called Ferraris counters @22:35
Fantastic presentation. Clarified a number of things/misperceptions I (and likely many) had relative to the Edison/Tesla "debate".
Wow this is an exhaustive video. I can't imagine how many hours it took to research it especially on the Edison side when considering all the sources cited.
The old adage about opening your mouth and removing all doubt about your intelligence seriously applies to Tesla here. Just hearing his wild ramblings really hurts his legacy. Thomas Edison is definitely vilified for partially being what amounts to a modern CEO which are definitely not held in high regard in the public conscious today. Instead the masses like the idea of the lone genius tragically defeated by the world and unappreciated. But that notion is unrealistic as all great things require a team effort.
Wow. This was an amazing episode. Great deep dive on both inventors.
Thank you for changing my mind, and for giving me more context and nuance in 4.5h than I would have had in way more time if I had to do the research myself! Very much appreciated.
Can't even listen to this right now....saving it for the weekend when I'm doing a 5hr drive to Jersey
I'm so excited. I work nights and these long forms videos get me through.
I love the longer cont by like this!!!! Amazing thank you!
Last time there was a long episode on one of your shows, I was getting half my foot left amputated and I listened to all 7+ hours while healing...Simon, what do you know that I don't? WHAT AM I LOSING NOW?!?!?!?!
Simon, this is THE definitive work on this subject. Factboy is done playin
Many thanks, these super long cuts get me through the work day! ❤❤❤
You're very welcome. :-) -Daven
After only listening to these for months in podcast form, putting a face to a voice is cool, you look like a genuinely good man my guy
Currently in a tornado warning, so thanks for something to watch.
Edit: no need for concern this is regular occurrence, I experience a tornado multiple times a year, every year. This is the second of the week for me.
Be safe
We must live in the same area. Fun times.
Be safe
@@TheMule1 Oklahoma is just a great state if you love tornadoes.
Surprised Tesla hasn't claimed credit for the tornado yet.
Now this is interesting. My two favorite people discussed in lengthy details and I loved each minute (I missed some and I will re-watch again and again).
thank you for doing this, I know it must have been a monumental task for the research team, but thank you.
You're very welcome. :-) When we started this one, seemed like any other in estimate of time needed... Then it took like 20 times longer to sort through what was myth and what was fact and dig out all the details. 😋 -Daven
You are really just going to drop a 4 hour video at 12am EST
As Tesla and Edison both would concur, sleep is for the weak. 😋 -Daven
Now you need to do similar research and output on Robert Hooke, the forgotten polymath.
sooooo, to sum up ... in a battle between Tesla and Edison, neither one would win! :) Edison wouldn't think anything bringing to the battle would be commercially viable and therefore not want to work on it, and Tesla wouldn't bring anything that was likely functional for any amount of time (or maybe he only built it in his head)... but whatever Tesla did, it would look darn cool! (Also the fact they were both only in favor of defensive research....)
Hot damn, Simon! 4.5 hours of GLORY. 🎉 Thank you and of course, the writer & editor! ❤
I just wish this had been in that cold read format! I like hearing your comments.
4½ hour episode is AWESOME! I'm listening at work
This debate is incredibly interesting… one might even say it’s EPIC. I mean… can you imagine Tesla and Edison battling it out for who was supreme? I mean it would be poetic… like a modern rap battle. Yes that’s it… an Epic Rap Battle, if you will.
( Season 2 represent!! )
I can't even imagine editing a 4.5 hr video, let alone recording one!
Speaking from experience… You break it up into smaller chunks, then assemble them into the larger edit.
Today on TIFO: Daven mistakes this channel for Casual Criminalist, goes for the long game. Panic ensues 😂
So wait is this his actual channel or is he just hosting like on the old channel biographics because let’s be honest the only reason we watch is because of him and the interesting history 🥰🥰
Over 4 hours? Fuck yeah! Yall went all out.
Unfortunate, but understandable title. I would have liked to end up knowing more about your sources, too. Then, of course, I watched the whole thing, trusting you in the process. It's rather simple to check on most of the quotes, for example, anyway. The video was glorious. Thanks! 👍
URP
4 hour banger!? Sleepyheads gonna sleep good tonight 🙌
Better than any binged show on netflix! Love it!!
Four and a half hours??!!?? Daaaaannnnng.... gonna pause this for now, cause I know what I'm gonna be listening to in the background for half my workday tomorrow haha! ^_^
How many breaks did you take during filming this episode?
Excellent video. My only criticism is that the writer failed to distinguish between a film camera and a video camera. A movie camera that uses film is not a video camera, because the image is produced optically. Video cameras convert images to electrical signals for processing, storage and broadcasting.
Love all the super long videos! LONG LIVE FACTBOI!!
Great episode, as always, but I noticed something odd. When Simon was making his joke about the Yankees (also strange as Simon does not strike me as a baseball fan), I had the subtitles on, and there was a whole little tirade about how the poor Seattle Mariners never have won the World Series, and there were other little bits hidden in the subtitles (I saw that bit about Mister Rogers). Now I am just curious who did the subtitles.
The subtitles are the core script. :-) Sometimes Simon doesn't read stuff, like as you say, nothing baseball. 😋 -Daven
More like this please.
4.5hrs??? Yesss that’s clean my house long!! Thanks Simon and co!!! Woot
Woot!
4.5 hours??? Even my dog is hooked lets go my man😂😂
Epic Rap Battles covered this best.
Doubt it, or Simon wouldn't have had to make a 4 and a half hour video debunking everything they told people.
@@luckyspurs I'm not saying you're wrong, but you do have a rather stunted conception of "best"
One of my first school field trips was to Thomas Edison's laboratory in West Orange. Very interesting tour.
Listened to this whole video while on a night shift cleaning. Thanks Simon 👍
Edison, speak up I can't hear you.............Tesla, trust me I'm a visionary.
Thanks so much for this video. I watched in several pieces over a couple of days.
It was well worth it due to the thoroughness of the documentation, and the use of both men’s own words.
I think far better of Edison now that I know more about him. I think some people were ready to think poorly about him because he seems the more “big businessman “ type and because earlier generations admired him unquestioningly. He was a much different and more interesting person than most people realized.
Tesla had some interesting ideas but never did the work to make most of them reality.
Love how Simon keeps saving history one topic at a time
This is so close to that video he said (think in the Decoding the Unknown episode on the Sphinx) he wanted to make about Ancient Egypt, putting a lot of the misconceptions to bed in one 4 hour video and hopefully getting it to the top of the algorithm when the word was searched, above all the inaccurate videos.
Thanks for this great video! As a fact channel though it would be nice if you could list sources!
4:27:30 the first human to pick up a rock and throw it got that idea from an Australopithecus. Those guys probably did a lot of first for which they don't get enough credit.
THE PERFECT CROCHET VIDEO
Thanks!
Thanks! :-) -Daven
I assumed this was a compilation of old videos!
Even as a lifelong Edison fan, I have to admit that when it came to enforcing his motion picture patents he could be as harsh as any of the classic robber barons. This next is aside from the point of your video, but he wasn't the best father to the children of his first wife, finding them dissapointing when they became adults. The second group did much better, in a large part because Mina had learned to smooth off some of his rougher edges, spinning them as colorful eccentricities.
I've read that What Tesla mistook for radio signals from Mars were actually Marconi's radio transmission tests.
Tesla described three beeps, at various frequencies, clearly of intelligent origin. Marconi was sending the Morse code "S" on a variety of frequencies, trying to find which would give him the longest range. Marconi produced the first radio transmissions,, but Tesla was already listening.
Tesla's description of the "world brain" where messages and images are sent all over the world establishing a regime of peace and global brotherhood is belied by the Internet.
4 and a half hours.
I'm expecting a tangent timer.
What was Simon's reaction when he saw the length of the script?
Wow I was expecting the time total to have glitched out or something
So here's the thing... I learned most of these myths about Tesla from published books not the internet 🤔 I would love to get more info about the sources used for this video, as the books I read were all published in the 1990s or earlier (I actually got interested in Tesla before the internet made him even more over hyped).
The website version gets all the references. The RUclips description box doesn't allow for even close to the number of characters needed. This one for a lot of our primary sources we mostly went way back to contemporary stuff like, of course, a ton of articles and things written by Tesla himself. This was most of the Tesla section. Along with a great book from 1903 written by a contemporary electrical engineer covering Tesla's work directly and breaking it all down in depth from someone who followed along directly as it was happening. That book was phenomenal both in its depth and that it explicitly cites everything really well as he's discussing. We explicitly cite that book in the video. Similar with Edison. Just a lot of primary documents. Generally the way to go. But particularly with Tesla, if you go, like you say, with stuff from the late 20th century, you get things that are mostly just parroting things Tesla said, both about what he claimed to have done and the like, but taking it as fact. Even where it's easy to debunk if you just look at the science or go back to primary documents and really read what Tesla was ACTUALLY saying. That one modern day electrical engineering professor we mention in the video really nailed it that most Tesla biographers seem to have zero understanding of the science they are talking about. So have really muddied the waters there in taking what Tesla said as fact, even where what he was saying just isn't possible. This is largely why most of the Tesla section is just quoting the man himself. It becomes pretty clear, pretty quick he didn't actually know what he was talking about much of the time, particularly in his work from the 1900s on, and that he couldn't have done much of what he said there. We did read a handful of more modern Tesla biographies as well in all this... But ya. They weren't awesome. Suffering from the issues described above. Mostly basing things on more recent stuff, etc. When you really dig into Tesla and reading his various articles, autobiography, etc, you quickly see you can't take anything he says at face value. Which, again, is why we quoted him for like 2 hours. 😋 Just also to show we weren't cherry picking. 😋 -Daven
To be clear, when reading tons of things Tesla wrote, you do get the impression he really believes the things he's saying... Not like he's a fraud. Just... He's wrong a lot. 🙃 This giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't just making a lot of it up, even where we know he couldn't have done something, is why we had that whole section talking about his visions and how he felt if he did something in his head, it was just as good as doing it in reality. That's about the only explanation we could come up with to explain the discrepancy. Otherwise would have to just go with fraud. But he really doesn't give that impression at all. And frequently put his money where his mouth was on it. So just hypothesizing he did stuff on his head, so felt comfortable claiming he'd got this or that working... Others go with that he was just mentally ill later in life. And that maybe was the case in some ways. But when it came to his work, he was always like that even in his prime. So... -Daven
Thanks for replying! I always got the sense that he was mentally unstable and a bit of a *unreliable narrator. So if the biographers took him completely at his word without due diligence, makes sense they ended up perpetuating his delusions of grandeur
Isn't this a movie by some definition. Give this man an Oscar.
The band Tesla really brought him to our knowledge of him and probably gave us our prejudices against Edison.
4.5 hours? Move aside Titanic, To Day I Found Out is coming through 🤣.
Made it! Took me almost a week but I watched nothing else but this because I wanted to finish it! DONE!
The title is wrong. It's "almost everything" not "most everything"
Brilliant video, really does put the fake info re yes edi into factual prospective, and give Edison the credit he deserves, too many people really big up tesla without really looking into it. Many of his predictions weren't science he was partly no different to arther c Clarke at times just predicting the future. Where as Eddison n team worked hard constantly until the end making inventions instead of talking to aliens
This needs to be a book
Huh... Might have to do an opinion change after this one
As did we. Full swap of opinion on both men. :-) -Daven
It's said that Tesla was a better inventor, and Edison was a better businessman.
Tesla would have made a better sci-fi author than inventor. We were huge fanboys of Tesla before doing this piece. But man, it's hard to find something he did that was significant, and his understanding of science, even for his day, was poor... 🙃 Watch the piece. There's a reason it's so long. Most of what people say about Tesla today came from Tesla hyping himself. People in his era got tired of it, especially when it became clear he didn't know what he was talking about and was making most of the stuff he said up... -Daven
@@nimbly1693 Did you read the comment? He signed it off, so you shouldn't even be asking that question.
Are you going to be hosting any more of these anytime soon? I don't care for British accents or expressions.
Yep :-) -Daven
@@nimbly1693 The world isn't america-centric. There are other countries .... get over it.
None of the two: the fathers of Electric Engineering were Charles August Rudolph "Proteus" Steinmetz and Oliver Heavside.
Wow, this is a very informative video and will educate a lot of people on the subject, this should be mandatory viewing in schools to dispel the myths and rumors about these men. A quick look thru the comments shows that most Tesla fans did not watch the video yet commented about their idol as if they know something about him just like Musk fans do today.
Up next should be a documentary about Elon Musk and how he is a modern version of Nikola, burning thru investor cash and making wild claims about "we have this technology now" or "it will be on the market next year" or "we will land people on mars in two years" and years later he is still saying the same things with nothing to show for it except billions of tax dollars gone in rocket explosions and "full self driving" that does not work.
I'm imagining next year Simon having a 12 episode documentary on netflix
The method in which Boeing designed the Quite Bird, Tesla would have also thought to be inefficient.
Some times great achievement comes with small steps.
4.5 hours? This is one video? OMG... wow!
Reminds me of a certain electric car company...
Square space should be honored to have Simon as their spokesperson.
Tesla's backstory: The wrong kid died!
This one took me a few days but holy cow is it ever good. I'll have to admit to have been a Tesla Bro before watching this. The illusions have been shattered and I will no longer scorn Mr Edison.
Sort of our same journey while researching this. :-) -Daven
"None of this was happening in a vaccum" my good sir 💡 thats exactly where its happening 😉
My take this video is simple, Edison was practical and pragmatic whereas Tesla was a smart man but a rather borderline personality and maybe even creepy.
Fantastic, I was on team Tesla now I'm on team damn they both did shit and arguably Edison did more. Good job on this one guys. You really put 99% perspiration in this 1% inspiration.
Simon in the thumbnail! 😂