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Title: The History of Nikola Tesla - a Short Story
Added: Jul 10, 2010
Author: jeremiahjw
Duration: 2:57
Description:
Friend me on Facebook! http://on.fb.me/gCSs8F Read more about Nikola Tesla http://amzn.to/teslabooks I made this for the 154th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth, which was July 10th. Thanks to http://www.vvomedia.com for helping promote this video.Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th 1856, in the territory of modern day Croatia to his two Serbian parents. Tesla grew up into bright inquisitive, yet eccentric child, who found himself fascinated by the world around him. Tesla once tried to fly by jumping off the roof of a barn while holding on to an umbrella. He devised a bug powered motor using Junebugs, but had to abort his experiment after a friend decided to eat some of the bugs (Tesla thought this was gross). He once attempted to generate electricity by rubbing two cats together, which resulted in two very mad cats and a scratched up Tesla.On June 6th, 1884, Tesla arrived in the United States. He was hired by Thomas Edison to do basic electrical engineering, but moved up to re-designing the direct current generators that ran Edison's business. Edison offered Tesla $50,000, or about $1.1 million in today's currency to make these improvements. After completing this assignment, Tesla asked about the payment for his work. Edison didn't pay out the money. He claimed that he wasn't serious about the payment, that Tesla didn't "understand American humor". Tesla eventually left Edison's company and partnered with George Westinghouse in 1888 to commercialize his system of alternating current (AC). The problem here is that alternating current competed with direct current, which Thomas Edison built his entire monopoly on. Thus begun the "War of the Currents".Edison started a massive smear campaign against Tesla and alternating current, trying to scare people into avoiding it's use. He spread false information about deaths from alternating current, lobbied against it, and went so far as to electrocute a circus elephant in public. Direct current had plenty of faults, it was the cause of death of countless children, and created numerous house fires. Also, the maximum reach of direct current was about two miles, which meant a substation had to be built to continue the current. They would still be building substations today if they were going to get electricity across the US. Tesla's alternating current could go for hundreds of miles. Lights running on alternating current were brighter, unlike the dull yellow lights running on direct current.Eventually, Edison had to give into the demands of the people, and go with alternating current.Tesla's influence goes much further than electricity. He had over 700 patents, and came up with ideas such as RobotsSpark Plugsthe Electric Arc Lampan Xray DeviceBlade less turbinesWireless communicationElectric motorsLaser technologyNeon LightsRemote ControlsCellular communicationThe radioAn electrical bath to remove germsRADARWireless communicationAnd much moreTesla died from heart failure in a room of the New Yorker Hotel, on January 7th 1943. Despite his fame and influence on the world, he died with significant debts, and all alone. While Edison is known as the inventor of the century, Tesla is only acknowledged as a paragraph in today's history books, forgotten, and unappreciated.
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Youtube Comments: 1391
coyalino Says:
May 16, 2012 - 17 dislikes-They should be forever excluded electricity!
thecakeistruth Says:
May 16, 2012 - uhhh Nikola Tesla is in team fortess 2....
theheavens Says:
May 16, 2012 - the Balkans haven't done much for civilization, but this is a rare instance when they did
lamatheapple Says:
May 17, 2012 - What book about Nikola Tesla do you guys suggest?
foxtrotwhiskeymike Says:
May 17, 2012 - ya, I hate edison
zn0508 Says:
May 17, 2012 - Edison married 16 year old girl.He paid people to abduct cats & dogs for public electrocute.He took his employees' ideas and filed patents under his name.Fucking assuming bitch and claim chowder.(said that x-ray could help cure blindness, and many idiotic statements)A complete douchebag.Fuck him and his American lobbyists and liars.Tesla is little known because of racist and selfish American science historians.
Akarys1991 Says:
May 18, 2012 - If tesla was born today we were living in a world where electricity is used only by rich, perhaps without internet and mobile phones. So i guess there would not not many resources we have today.
MrHyperspaceman Says:
May 18, 2012 - greatest serb ever WE ARE PROUD OF HIM
SuperPenetration Says:
May 19, 2012 - He is croat, as seen in very beggining of the video. His parent/s were serbs, he is born in Croatia
MrHyperspaceman Says:
May 19, 2012 - Um because hes parents are serbs hes a Serb only born on croatian teritory and im not stupid go to croatian wikipedia and read how proud he was becaus hes a serb go go read .... also croats dont have him on ther money -_-
SuperPenetration Says:
May 20, 2012 - My father is from Sweden, and my mother is from Sweden, but i am born in Austria, and since i was born in Austria, and i/we live there i have Austrian nationality
MrHyperspaceman Says:
May 20, 2012 - That might be but he at that time wasnt born in croatia or serbia that ws theritory of Austro-Hungary so hes by your teory austro-hungaryan. And the laws were a lot diferent then so it dosnt change everthing. Actualy he is more related to serbia and austro-hungary than croatia.
newagecozaki Says:
May 20, 2012 - frigging rip off!
archersings Says:
May 23, 2012 - Oatmeal brought me here
el0sidewinder Says:
May 24, 2012 - It is a sad aspect of our society , that people with small ideas but a large propaganda machine overpower original and revolutionary thinkers, whose aim is not to obtain fame or money, but are driven only by the joy of understanding and imagining things.
sonicherooftim3 Says:
May 24, 2012 - Nikola Tesla = dumbass at 0:17
cicimicidee Says:
May 25, 2012 - serbian genious
stevensrd1 Says:
May 25, 2012 - Tesla is the man, closest ive came to free energy is running a rotating motor stand on pure water for over a year, see my vids and the blinkyblue live cam link there to see it live.
wpppvp Says:
May 26, 2012 - But still your are Swedish because your family roots are from Sweden.
DennisFranz Says:
May 27, 2012 - Telsa was a true scientist. Edison was a true business man and only modified existing ideas.
DennisFranz Says:
May 27, 2012 - Who hasn't ? At least he liked rubbing the kitties.
tomafila Says:
May 28, 2012 - Nikola Tesla was a wonderful person. I'am Serb, and I am proud of that. :)
pk18426 Says:
May 29, 2012 - second thatHe was a truly awesome genius geek who ever lived
rpsmith014 Says:
May 14, 2012 - Go for it. I don't know how well of a writer you are but you are right, a proper historical text needs to be written.