Tesla: Genius Engineer and Tireless Inventor FULL SPECIAL | American Experience | PBS America
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Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world.
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A Genius man, he is NEVER forgotten.
Brilliant man , born too soon , may he rest in peace xxxxxxxxxx
I take my hat off to the man. What an incredible human being and story. No matter his somewhat pretencious quirks, his genius is unquestionable.
He made the world better with his unique inventions, thanks Nikola Tesla.
"He'll be a child of the Storm!" - The midwife said. His mother responded... "No! Of Light" Folklore is an amazing thing sometimes... pretty cool in this case. A Genius he was indeed....
My great grand mammy Koonta says Tesla was a black man .
Who are the commentators??? Putting Nikola Tesla down?? Thank you Nikola Tesla for all you did for humanity.❤️🙏
Yes, there seems to be a bit of Tesla bashing and complete ignorance of his complete transformation of electric power generation with his generators and motors (still used today) and as the grandfather of alternating current.
@@FrancisMaxinoHe didn't invent the generators and he didn't invent the motors.
@@FrancisMaxino The reason for putting Tesla down is fan-boy misinformation. He was not the grandfather of AC.
We owe him the world. May he be remembered.
We owe him nothing! There are 100s of MILLION men on earth who are living without electricity AT ALL! But that can't class them as sub-humans. They OWE TESLA/EDISON/westinghouse/jpmorgan NOTHING!
With the exception of the AC motor I don't see anything Tesla did as speeding up several inevitable developments. He may even have handicapped the progress of AC transmission by his lack of understanding of the benefit of 3-phase electricity, ironically unlike Westinghouse or overseas companies.
Alternating current, Tesla transformer, neon lighting, electric logic circuit, radio, wireless transmission,wireless control...
@@aleksandarlazarevic1354 We all have a need to make heros. But Tesla was not an Einstein. Tesla studied Alternating Current at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, where he dropped out and did not qualify. In the USA, as an technician engineer he followed the latest scientific developments in Europe and demonstrated many. Nothing wrong in that. Tesla popularised the HF coil to generate HV, he did not invent it. Tesla did not invent the neon light, his contribution was to create advertising lettering. Remote control was also demonstrated by other radio enthusiasts by ringing a bell. His claim to fame was his enthusiasm, forsite and showmanship and of course, the induction motor.
@@bobdeverell when you already mentioned Einstein, Tesla's contribution to humanity is incomparably greater than Einstein's.Tesla created or advanced more useful patents than all other inventors combined,while on the other hand Einstein's work is absolutely useless in a practical sense.people sent the first artificial satellite and a man into space using Newton's science with Einstein's you can go to the store to buy popcorn and ewen fod that you don't need it.he is also the father of computer hardware. A logic circuit is an electronic circuit composed of switching elements and has at least one input and at least one output. Circuits like this are used to perform calculations in Boolean algebra. Logic circuits can be constructed from valves, relays, diodes or optical elements. Nikola Tesla first applied for patents for the electromechanical AND (AND) logic circuit in 1899. Tesla has its own unit in the international system T , which indicates the amount of magnetic induction per square meter.in short, the man who invented the 20th.
Wireless internet! Tesla: How you like me now! He had the last laugh😂😂😂
I always admire him a lot and told his geniuses to my younger brother a lot time. The sophisticated world we live in where we have all devices from ACs, Refrigerators all bassed on AC current and more importantly just because of him, we have TRANSFORMER. I believe Transformer is the most biggest invention of all time, isn't it!??? Just loved this video!!!❤❤❤
Watching his docos in awe. His visualisations and memory hints of remote viewing?
Thank you for this wonderful documentary! Godbless PBS!
Tesla isn't every thing of our ubiquitous AC system. Many others contributed immensely for the present state of our electricity distribution. 1st of all Michael Faraday discovered the AC- (single phase) electricity generation by mechanical means in 1831 & Galileo Feraris in 1885 invented the 2-phase system along with Tesla 1887. Finally it was Dolivo Dobrovolsky in 1889 invented our 3-phase 3- wire Star/ Delta distribution system, most efficient AC Induction motor , Squirrel Cage motor.
Agreed. Tesla was an avid reader of the latest electrical experiments. He imported and popularised AC in the USA. He did not invent it.
Few corrections: Tesla was from a Serbian village called Smiljani in Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his father was a Serbian (not Greek) Orthodox priest.
Smiljan.
A Great man indeed. A brilliant mind.
Whenever I see a documentary about electricity, l am reminded of my childhood. MyGrandfather who was born in 1889. He. Was a n electrical Engineer of immense importance in England. He designed the system of allowing electricity to reach the top of high storey apartments. He didn’t patent the system (unfortunately). I recall during the years of my childhood, gentlemen of a like mind visiting my Grandparents home to determine this and that. I am now 82,and remember him with huge affection. Thank you Grandpa William Rowland. … Valerie.
My grandpa was born in 1898. He was an MD and patented nothing like 98.99% of humans... Thank you grandpa Julia Roberts. ... Brigitte
"He designed the system of allowing electricity to reach the top of high storey apartments" There is no need to design a separate system for such a purpose. The same mains power electrical cables that branch from one building to another can simply be branched multiple times at the base of an apartment building as if they were simply a neighborhood of separate buildings/houses at ground level instead. AC electrical power can already travel hundreds of miles without drastic losses in efficiency. A few hundred meters in branching distance within an apartment building to wire up every node is nothing special compared to that feat.
Tesla was my great grandfather
Great documentary!, always have the brave to believe in your dreams overall!
Great documentaries, best things to come out of America!
Edison invented A lightbulb. He did not invent THE lightbulb.
The electric light bulb with a metal thread was invented by the Croatian Franjo Hanaman, Tesla is also Croatian
Not even that. He paid for continuous research that produced a lightbulb filament that would finally be practical in applications lasting longer than a candle while producing bright, white light. He was there, but so were several other engineers that he had on the payroll. Due to his employment contracts it is probably impossible to say exactly what he invented personally and what his employees invented while working on his premises.
@@vg7759 "with a metal thread" is a very ambiguous statement. "was invented by the Croatian Franjo Hanaman, Tesla is also Croatian" Ah yes - the olde nationalist view of things. If you like that tack I've got a better one. Italian professor Galileo Ferraris was the first to invent a working polyphase AC motor before Tesla claimed to have invented it and then lost it in a fire. After Ferraris died unrecognized due to Tesla having Westinghouse at his back in the US patent dispute the Italian inventor Marconi evened the score and took the win for the first working practical radio while Tesla continued to fail at making Wardenclyffe viable. Marconi's victory combined with Tesla's complete lack of return for JP Morgan's investment was basically the end of his professional career. I'd say that's karmic justice even if most people don't know who Ferraris is today.
6:49 just collaborating with other people can evolve us frigging amazing.
Very beautiful sweet Tesla sir ji I mis u❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hello Mr. Electricity. Thank you for this information. What an amazing gentleman. Valerie.
i think it more suits an american audience as an engineer ive always respected Tesla and his ingenuity as a creative inventor and his eidetic memory and his clarity of vision
Thanks, great docu
I loved the Voiceover, I listened to this and it really made me relax, He sounds like the voiceover of my favorite KZhead documentary, The FBI Files.
Nikola Tesla's most important invention(s) would be the Alternating Current electricity and the (AC) motor... Then the rest would be just ideas... Without AC power there will be no computers, rockets, washing machine and dryers, microwave, lasers, drones, electric guitara and amps, television, radio, internet, cellphones, satellites and thousands of other modern equipments.
Sorry @yootuber2009, you're repeating a myth. Tesla did not invent AC, its properties were well known and demonstrated overseas. The enabling technology that made AC usable was the invention of the transformer. That was not Tesla's idea and without the transformer, DC would have prevailed at that time. Westinghouse saw that far more clearly than Tesla.
Tesla popularised AC, he did not invent it. That honour does to others. In reality he probably delayed the introduction and deployment of modern 3-phase distribution, because he didn't realise its main benefit.
Excellent thanks
They fail to mention his invention of remote control with his submarine boat before even Marconi had done his trick with wireless telegraphy, essentially an extension of Teslas invention...
"If I am lucky enough to realize at least some of my ideas, it will be a charity for all mankind. If my hopes are fulfilled, the sweetest thought will be that it is the work of a Serbian". Nikola Tesla
Just for the record, he was also proud American. :-)
Nikola Tesla, a giant of his day, and the future.
What Marconi & Tesla did was wireless telegraphy - Morse Code signal transmission. 1st to send human voice & music by radio was by Reginald Fessenden in 1904, USA. That was the AM system we still use today. And in 1934 FM system was invented by Edwin Armstrong , also much improved Superherodyne, system still we use in every telecommunication rreceiving equipment.
Some of his visions are way ahead of our times. We may never live to see them. A true genius, whose only weakness was naivety in a capitalist world.
That Tesla experiment from 1891 was key to the emergence of new physics at the beginning of the 20th century. Ten Nobel Prize winners and their discoveries were influenced by him. Greetings from Serbia.
Energy Frequency Vibration & Sound 369 R.I.P Nikola Tesla Balance! 21 Gun Salute!
The ray incident is amazing he brought meteors down to earth 🌎 I think they used theirs on maui
Welcome to our planet.
@26:10 Red Alert childhood memoires😅
Same here 😂 I was building Tesla coils all around the base. It was the best defense method. Greetings from Serbia.
Affirmative 😂
@@glezgaboy9390 Very well
You can change the world and do anything and impossible is nothing if you care not who gets credit, but only the results" Nikola Tesla 2024.... Nothing ever dies that is real and never Devine intelligence written deeply in universal Mind but to tap into it and truly access you must be a man of God=totally devoted to serving humanity=miracle of Life in Universe...!
Up there with Dr Raymond Ryfe
I wish we could see ALL of Tesla's inventions....the ones that were converscated by the federal government.
What inventions? sounds like you've got a very vivid imagination.
Incredible engineering includes the Tesla crash reports ?
Nikola Tesla was a genius. His engineering background helped him realize his vision but Tesla was less an engineer than a GENIUS.
Just a brief mention of his inventor mother. What did she invent?
Man of Light and his beloved bride Pigeon of Peace" TwitPeace Foundation-
This is the next step to our evolution, before that it was harnessing fire.
45:00 I think he must have been thinking about the lightning and how that travelled from the sky and to the Earth. That would seem reasonable. 47:49 In some ways he’s not wrong, look at MRI machines and how things are today. We are trying to do exactly that.
I mean same tower design give me❤❤❤❤
He was a true visionary with no business sense. Musk is a visionary with business sense that is quite unique as most humans are one or the other or neither.
Edison was the Businessman and a bloody good one. Today like yesterday the visionary is usually forgotten as the businessman prospers. Hence the need for lawyers.
Imagine a billionaire like Elon meeting this man
height: 6'2" weight: 63 kg
I'm grateful he all gave us *free unlimited energy*
Yes!😂😂
Lmfao, I honestly don't know what world you idiots live in.
Tesla's lack of understanding of basic physics led him down the garden path on several occasions.
14:30 the worst explanation of an AC motor ever
"When you think about electricity, you think of Edison. But Tesla was just more of an original american than Edison." -Wtf is that supposed to mean? What is that guy in the beginning implying? That americans are the only people on earth who come up with ingenious inventions?
Calm down kid, you're reading too much into it.
33:24 I reckon that's what made him the inventor he was, the best martial artist in the world are the ones that train in the bush or mountains for tranquillity to soar in inventing new projects with out distraction, cos that distraction can stop you in your tracks, and non belief in ideas. people can stop other people from evolving, Edison showed a good example of that for not believing in alternating current.
Edison was invested in direct current, which is just as important as AC.
@@chalkandcheese1868 niccoli was interested in all that wireless tech too.
@@RAPINCITE lmfao, go to bed kid
@@chalkandcheese1868I watch this content to get sleep, you silly rabbit.
@@RAPINCITE precious
Tesla will reincarnate to finish his mission. 🕊️🕊️🕊️
Either you create or you hustle its hard to do both, if your doing both one of them is going to lack, telsa devoted all his thinking to inventions.
Great man, i just wish people stopped comparing him to eleon, elon is but a single braincell compared to him.
It’s true we Americans have never given Tesla the respect he deserves. That starts with the most basic and recurring disses that this film is guilty of too: butchering the pronunciation of his name. It’s not nick-KO-la. The emphasis is on the first syllable, and it’s pronounced like the English words for the joint in the middle of the leg: knee and and the soda: cola: NI-kola.
Did you watch the documentary? he was rich and famous in his day and got recognition for what he achieved.
He will be a child of the dark, NO!! He will be a Child of the LIGHT!!
Tesla was from 300 years ahead of time
sun son 🌞 😎👆👌
#2
Thank great god for newton and tesla!!!!
Money offspring fame are the greatest inventions
Ahaaa, KI
If only he could see it now 😢
7:09 he was born in Croatia ...
So What ..... ?!!😮
@@Panos125S They mention over 20 times that he is Serbian, he was not.
@@tomapc Croatia Takes The Glory 😄🤭
@@Panos125S I am not Cratian, but i did live there a lot, probably over 4 years in total. Magnificent seaside there...
@@tomapc I Know What You Mean , Have A Nice Day 👋
Namaste 🙏🇮🇳💎🤝🙏💐😎🏁
Tesla didn't get the credit back then Edison did and that's the way they wanted the narrative told! But Tesla! EPIC
if only tesla completed that wireless electricity......
I mean best friend❤❤❤❤
5:15 nah mate I think your grandmother thought you were going to stick a fork into the outlet but rather than telling you about how she didn’t want her very young grandson to die a horrific and painful death so she made up the story about the electricity “dripping out of the socket”. Unfortunately, he still believes it today
T=wb/m^2
Tesla..the man behind modern electricity 💪
Marconi the Italian dog never invented radio. Tesla did.
In new heaven and new Earth without Sun without Ilussionary artificial senses and identification with Flesh, it will be able to communicate with others by thoughts and record them, Accordingly...
Nothing new here. If it werent for Tesla, they would still be building the grid in Manhattan.
Er no, Tesla was one of dozens and dozens of scientists and engineers that contributed to the modern system.
Tesla is a genius, unfortunately this documentary has not done him justice. Peter Fisher has not done any study on what our how Tesla's inventions worked. There are others that have replicated the work, but Peter Fisher seems to be there to undermine the legacy.
Americans should have learned about Tesla not Edison in school all along. The Europeans know.
I like Tesla we share the same ability with the video imaging brain. But it can be a bad thing if something bad happens you can replay the moment as if you were living it again. We share the whole i need to know how things work. We visualize and tweak in our brains we know how things are going to work. We can fix anything except some women that's just impossible.
And then there's Musk and the Muskrats!! How could they use his name for the parody they built?
Because he was Serbian, the people in America treated him poorly, one of them Edison; we should know that the Electric AC current were used today in the world invented by Nicola Tesla.
Nikola*
Tesla is just a genius, not a stupid engineer.
Good day from Lismore, NSW. I will go around Australia. I communicate with Elon Musk on X. The next NIKOLA TESLA. I will travel around Australia on a CYBERTRUCK for six months starting at the end of September 2024. I will give myself until April 2024 to assemble a team to travel with me. I will travel approximately 120 kilometres each day. I will travel 20,160km in six months. We will use one CYBERTRUCK as a prize for a lucky AUSTRALIAN, which you sell a long way when going around AUSTRALIA.
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he is not a Greek Orthodox priest, but a Serbian Orthodox priest, if you are talking about such a man, write the truth as it is
Two Narcissist's now? if one destroying star wars wasn't enough.
totally different way of telling history ...as compared to history channel.
He was born in AustroHungaria not in Croatia. His father was a priest of the Serbian Christian Orthodox church. Nikola Tesla had older brother (killed by horse) who was more genious than Nikola. His native village Smilian (Smiljan) and almost all his relatives was destroyed in genocide by Croatian NAZI state during ww2.
10:07 errrmm no he didn’t banish thoughts he exercised normal self control and stopped being a child and understood that he’s imagining things…like every child. 11:24 Memory cannot be photographic, that’s not even a legitimate term for something similar. He’d be pissed off at being spoken about like a child.
He didnt produce the evidence because the funding was pulled by Morgan at Wardenclyffe. Had nothing to with fooling himself or self promotion. Simply because commerce will never allow his ideas to be experimented with. Free energy to any point in the globe? "Oh, no. Were not having that!" said Morgan. 🤣🤣😂
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AFAK only Feynman and Tesla got sick in their high school/university days by trying to digest huge amount of knowledge.
pro forma documentary short clips of pseudo erudite comments that probably made litlle sense in context and mean almost nothing out of context. heads on the left facing half-right; on the right facing half-left. But it's worse than that, as Dr McCoy told the captain; through it all you got that stupid background noise.
Utter fan boy BS. Tesla's importance to mankind is overstated. Both Westinghouse and Edison were more important to the development of domestic electricity. Tesla was a clever and well read idealist, particularly of european electrical developments. The ac motor was his most important idea and he must get credit for that, but while he patented the motor, he was not the one to make it work. Also, he was not responsible for 3-phase transmission or initially seeing its benefits. The honor for 3-phase electricity rightly goes to 2 others. Lets keep our feet on the ground.
Correct, and a certain Michael Faraday stands head and shoulders above them all, which is hilarious considering modern day Tesla fanboys have probably never heard of him.
His father Milutin was a GREEK orthodox priest?? Oh really sInce when. Ah America, continually re-writing the facts of history.
Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulbe. He "stole" the pattent, and then improved the design and it's effictiveness. Joseph Swan invented the first lightbulbe that looked and worked the same way Edison's did. But he never patented this design, which Edison quickly realized, and thusly "stole". As he himselfe had not make one yet. Edison after "stealing" the pattent started experimenting whit different materials for the filiament, to see which one was the best. Edison stole the pattent, he dident invent it as everyone inc himselfe claimed. How ever his true claim is figuring out how to make it brighter and more durable. Wich none of the previous inventors or researchers/sientists had not managed to do at a reliable frequensy. Some where extremely bright but burned out way too quickly, others wher durable but extremely expenisve to make at the time.
No dumbass, Edison and his team (under Edisons direction) came up with the first workable electric lightbulb. So he DOES deserve the credit.
Tesla farther was Serbian Orthodox priest.
7:33 🙄
His dad was serbian priest not Greek 😂
Father is Serbian Prist Milutin Tesla not Greek ,you Americans how Tesla is not born in America?you better say he is born in Chicago
Typical vague nonsense about Tesla, he didn't invent radio and he didn't invent the AC grid system. At least they didn't demonise Thomas Edison.
hmmm he is not serbian btw.