5 Incredible Things that Tesla Invented

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[@JamesFromTexas]

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[@estraume]

You need to edit the video at 12:03. The drawings show the Tesla valve and not the turbine.

[@stephenbrewins3689]

There are some people that come along every generation or so that are wired (no pun intended) differently and Tesla was definitely one of them.when you can build a gadget or invention in your mind and transfer it into a practical object,shows he was way above everybody (arguably) else.

[@gh8447]

Oh, c'mon, pull the other one - that pun absolutely intended! 😂

[@joshk.6246]

Imagine if he came along with our current knowledge. He would be a force within the sciences.

[@AleksPTA]

​@@joshk.6246no He would have been rejected by the current education system for being disruptive, would have been forced to be medicated and would be a mini miracle if he survived the bullying in high school

[@mini-carnage7540]

​@@AleksPTAwait I thought the right is of the opinion that the education system is too accepting now-a-days? I must be wrong.... Cos we've had zero developments since Tesla's time.

[@Nilboggen]

Whenever people ask, who you would meet if you could go back in time I always say "Tesla". Just want to go bounce ideas off him and see what he spits out. Who knows how many inventions were rolling around in that beautiful mind of his that we never got to see. Want to see him in his prime though prior to the pigeon years lol.

[@dankay4388]

Your section on the Tesla turbine shows images of Tesla's check valve. A valve that had no moving parts. Still not commonly used today, even though it is extremely durable and resistant to particulate interference. What I was hoping to see mentioned was his remote control boat. Way ahead of its time and "borrowed" by the American military during WW2 for use in airplanes.

[@Kellythelawyer]

Was about to say the same thing.

[@willchristian5954]

Thank you! This is the problem every time people do something on Tesla, they prove that his concepts are still beyond the understanding of average people over a century later. Can't even tell 1 patent from another. Don't get me started on the "Mythbusters" disservice to such a brilliant man. I agree, his concept of remote control was far ahead of its time. However, I would argue the 1 way flow valve was more brilliant, and still more ahead of how we approach engineering today. That is what separates opinions from facts. I may disagree with your opinion, but I respect it none the less. Cheers!

[@dankay4388]

@willchristian5954 I agree with you. The brilliance hidden in perceived simplicity when examining how the valve operates is truly amazing. I think (and admittedly I know enough about flow dynamics to fill a cup) that the major factor as to why it hasn't been more readily implemented is size, to achieve the desired effect (depending on viscosity) there is a minimum number of interference chambers that are needed, making the device rather long for some applications. Please correct me if I am wrong, I'd love to hear a more likely explanation if there is one.

[@dankay4388]

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[@thesteadingoffranya4423]

@@dankay4388 You are not wrong but there has been a lot of talk lately in some circles about the use of the Tesla valve in environments that have been known to freeze or lock up mechanical valves. (I first heard about this from a former NASA engineer that did a seminar at the university I attended.) The basic idea is the less moving parts the less likely of failure and as for length of the valve there is a design that layers multiple valves where the fluid would be transferred between layers by the flow pressure. (I think. I am not an engineer but I think i am remembering this correctly) it was to address exactly what you mentioned about length of the valve

[@naomisutherland9158]

Whilst attending a trivia night we had the question "what did Tesla invent?" We answered - alternating current - only to be maked wrong as the answer was, they insisted, "air conditioning"!?!😮 I tried to explain that AC meant something quite different in this context but they refused to correct it. Such an Edison 😂😂

[@morganlee2806]

He didn't invent alternating current, either.

[@TheJMBon]

​@@morganlee2806 He pioneered the use of AC while Edison championed DC.

[@PghFlip]

Curious, when talking about the Tesla turbine, why were you showing graphics about the Tesla Valve? Is there a relation between them of which I'm unaware?

[@davidslattery5168]

there is not

[@THE-X-Force]

@@Vectorized_mind He doesn't do the graphics / editing.

[@MichaelEilers]

It’s a big miss and bad writing, for sure. He’s describing a fluid clutch, which is common and found in many vehicles and industrial applications.

[@nela9994]

Yes, exactly, the Tesla valve with no moving parts is and was much more successful than the turbine. The turbine which mostly failed due to material science engineering failing him, and not having a late substance that could spin at those speeds, and be flat enough, and not spin apart and explode at the edges. We are getting there now, though.

[@phild8965]

​@MichaelEilers I've been seeing lots of these types of errors in most of their videos. They should really do more work on fact checking

[@johnsimun6533]

The Tesla Coil is one of the world’s best musical instruments. It’s got to be in the top five, if not top three. Can I get a thumbs up, if you have listened to one of them play their wonderful music. Don’t forget that they can sing, also.

[@JonaLastname]

I think what Tesla was trying to achieve with his wireless energy transmission is what we today know as phased-array-antennas, since these basically just use resonant frequencies to create a concentrated beam of light that can be converted into electricity. It's used in aircraft radar, starlink antennas and the 5G antennas in phones today, but i've heard there are plans to use it in energy transmission some day aswell, so Teslas dream will eventually become a reality

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:21: 🔌 This episode explores five incredible inventions by Nikola Tesla and their impact on our daily lives. 3:00: 🔌 Tesla's AC power and Tesla coil were groundbreaking inventions that revolutionized electricity transmission and sparked public interest in electrical phenomena. 6:22: 🔌 The Tesla Coil had a significant impact on the evolution of electronic devices, but ultimately did not fulfill Tesla's dream of wireless energy transmission. 9:07: 💡 Tesla's magnifying transmitter and Tesla turbine were two of his innovative inventions. 12:28: 💡 The Tesla turbine offers a mechanically simple solution to energy conversion with potential applications in power generation, propulsion, and pump systems. 15:42: 🔬 Nikola Tesla's pioneering work in x-rays, including capturing images of the human body and discovering correlations between x-ray characteristics and electrical generators. Recap by Tammy AI

[@seanmalloy7249]

The thing that killed Tesla's dream of wireless energy transmission was having to admit to Westinghouse that there was no way to _bill_ people for using that energy. With no way to make money off the technology, Westinghouse pulled all of his funding. Tesla pumps are used widely today, largely in situations where they are pumping fluids that are not uniform, such as sewage, with its various lumps in the liquid, viscous, or abrasive. As a turbine, though, it has seen little commercial use.

[@Bill_the_Red_Lichtie]

01:47 As much as I love your content Simon, I beg to differ here. Modulation is very different to transformation. Your average "power station" doesn't have modulators (that is the realm of things like radios and radars) but they have "transformers" that either increase or reduce (transformer) the voltage without any transforming signal (AM or FM) being applied.

[@KryssLaBryn]

Dust Puppy!! :D

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:35 - Chapter 1 - The alternating current 2:10 - Mid roll ads 3:35 - Back to the video 4:55 - Chapter 2 - The tesla coils 7:50 - Chapter 3 - The magnifying transmitter 11:30 - Chapter 4 - The tesla turbine 14:00 - Chapter 5 - X rays

[@beliasphyre3497]

12:03 That is the tesla valvular conduit. Something very different than the turbine being talked about.

[@Qingeaton]

That's what I was saying....why are they showing that, it will really confuse people. That was a brilliant check valve design with no moving parts though as well.

[@the_mister_magister]

i said the same lol

[@megansholtz1259]

Tesla connected power from Niagara Falls, NY to Buffalo, NY through my hometown of North Tonawanda. It's a cool legacy for our small City. Niagara Falls still uses his designs to create energy. He was far beyond his years.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Tesla worked for Westinghouse.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@emaarredondo-librarian Of that, YOU CAN BE SURE!

[@JAlucard77]

Just imagine what he could do if he was alive today. He was truly a man far ahead of his era.

[@GrrMeister]

*Probably Invent a **-Jelly Mould-** Tesla EV CAR !*

[@leahbiffin8432]

I am a medical physicist in Radiology, I had no idea about the depth of Tesla's contribution to the field. Roentgen gets all the credit in my textbooks for the origin of the techniques.

[@nanoglitch6693]

Tesla coils are extremely underrated. Just having a few placed strategically around access points along with some anti-aircraft can make your base virtually impenetrable. And if you keep them spaced close enough to each other, they'll even combine their power one-shotting the strongest units. ⚡⚡⚡💥🤯

[@UltraOmega-cj7yz]

Construction complete... low power.... XD

[@olencone4005]

@@UltraOmega-cj7yz You just need more Tesla Troopers :P

[@techfixr2012]

It is AC current that gets to your house, but DC runs the inside of your appliances.

[@jamesslick4790]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Toasters and coffee makers, washing machines, dryers and refrigerators without digital controls are 100% A.C. for example. Fans, incandescent lighting. are also A.C.

[@THE-X-Force]

J.P. Morgan refused to fund Tesla's research into the wireless transmission of electricity, having infamously said to the inventor: _"If they can pull the electricity out of the air,_ _where will I plug in the meter?"_ .. allegedly.

[@danbev4738]

He would never be so foolish as to not see the profitability of it regardless.

[@RogueReplicant]

​@@danbev4738It was also a matter of national security. Energy is a highly strategic asset, especially in war. Imagine Hitler and Tojo not being restrained by their lack of energy sources.

[@antiquatedideas1107]

​@@RogueReplicantyou make a very good point, however gasoline and oil are very different energy sources to electricity. It's not to say that tanks, cars, planes, ships, half tracks, and other vehicles couldn't be electrically powered (especially if there is a way to harness free electricity) but that making these vehicles electrically powered would be costly, probably unreliable, and would need someone very trained to maintain

[@RogueReplicant]

@@antiquatedideas1107 Not so. Tesla proposed (pardon the oversimplification) that we tap into the ionosphere for electricity. It means that there is no need to STORE nor TRANSMIT the electricity since it can be accessed from anywhere with the right (cheap and simple) equipment. If you take out storage and transmission, energy is virtually free for any psycho (Tojo, Hitler or Mao) to power a robot army.

[@morganlee2806]

He refused to fund him (after having already funded him several times) because Tesla didn't make good on his promises. He took Morgan's money claiming he would do one thing and then went off on his own venture. Then, after failing to live up to his end, he had the balls to come back and ask for more money for some other "too good to be true" invention. Morgan wasn't an idiot and stopped bothering with him.

[@charleymurphy2794]

Simon please do an entirety of electric understanding , from discovery to every day use!

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Unnecessary. The channel Kathy Loves Physics and History has a whole series on the history of electricity. She is an actual Physics teacher. Also, there's a good documentary on the subject titled Shock and Awe, which is here and there on KZbin.

[@Svensk7119]

Loved the moved goalposts! And that you used, "pedantry", Simon!

[@RedRomanov]

He also formed a rock band AC/DC with Edison, and invented self driving cars. What am I doing here

[@Mustis91]

The issue with the tesla turbine shown in the video is that it created huge forces when they tried building bigger versions of it that you could use in a powerplant. it would basically destroy itself. It's a bit like throwing a brick into a washing machine and turning it on :D We use different turbines though that were also invented or improved by Tesla.

[@slmille4]

12:15 lol @ showing the Tesla valve while talking about the Tesla turbine

[@rubiconnn]

13:03 You got this fact backwards, the tesla turbine is NOT used because it operates at a very high speed with very little torque, which makes it really unreliable and prone to failure.

[@crazyhobo555]

The pictures of the odd node looking thing in the Tesla turbine are for a different Tesla invention called the Tesla valve. It's a one way valve that had no moving parts using the back pressure generated by the liquid or gas pumped through the valves nodes to prevent travel in one direction

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

You just know his later years were dedicated to groundbreaking Pigeon-centric inventions the outside world had no use for, but undoubtedly were considered his greatest inventions by Tesla himself

[@RogueReplicant]

Pigeon-centric inventions?? 🤔

[@charlesbolin7207]

Just so everyone is aware, every single digital electronic device and appliance runs on DC. We have "AC" adapters, inverters and "power supplies" in our electronic devices and appliances that convert AC to DC. Don't get me wrong, AC is awesome for powering motors and traveling long distances but DC is required for anything the requires an electrical pulse to communicate such as logic circuits.

[@theldun1]

why did you show pics of his valve while talking about the turbine ??????

[@dillonchamberlain]

There’s a drinking game to take a shot every time the clip doesn’t match up to the dialogue.

[@terdsie]

Is that why I'm drunk?

[@patrickdurham8393]

I was going to point that out too.

[@nela9994]

His no moving parts valve is an invention of Tesla’s that most definitely worked, and is used much more widely than Tesla’s turbine. I wonder why that was ignored, entirely.

[@Snugglez187]

Maybe the turbine contained the valves in its design. 🤷‍♂️

[@billywampler2852]

Somewhere between Waco and Dallas (but definitely closer to Dallas, off I35, there is a strange looking building that is shaped very similarly to either a MASSIVE Tesla Coil, or that tower he built to beam power thru the air, never detoured to check it closer but it's always made me curious

[@briangreen9677]

You are correct. It is a fully functioning wireless energy transmission tower. Owned and controlled by some very secretive folks, which makes it all the more humorous that they'd put it right by a freeway. I guess they assumed that no one driving by would know what it was other than a strange-looking building, and they were 99.9% correct.

[@billywampler2852]

@@briangreen9677 STFU I feel like I'm being trolled

[@RealSaintB]

Tesla was undeniably an electrical engineering genius and its too bad that none of that genius translated into other areas. The poor man died completely impoverished and almost entirely separated from reality.

[@HangingWithEpstein]

2:10 "wallet or keys". Did anyone else hear "koala wookies" LoL 🤣😆

[@CatDad01]

A/c gets the power to you but direct current is usually what's doing the work thereafter. Kinda funny how edison and tesla had different ideas but ultimately both were right and they both needed each others design for the whole system to actually function.

[@zamlat8118]

Not sure about that. DC is used in electronics but most of electric energy is spent as AC. At least in households. Transportation is opposite, most trains and trams run on DC. Industry? Probably mostly AC.

[@ancienttech4603]

I think you need to list your sources, because from what I've read, AC was in use since before Tesla was born. Michael Faraday built AC generators but put commutaors on them to make them pulsed dc.

[@clintthomas1854]

Yes spot on, he invented the poly phase motor. And the math to go with it.

[@paulmentzer7658]

No mention of Tesla's second most used invention today? The Automotive Speedometer. Speedometers existed before Tesla, but all used measurements of the wheel turning, and since they were all attached to the wheel frequently broke (as such speedometers do on Bicycles today). Tesla's invention attached the speedometer to the transfer case, where it was protected from most road hazards and did not need to be adjusted every time you replaced a tire. Royalties from that invention was Tesla's main source of income in his last two decades of life. Car makers could not work around Tesla's patents so they paid him to attach those Speedometer to they automotive products.

[@MrDominicharrison]

He was born in Smiljan, this is Croatia

[@Error-kl9op]

it was Austria-Hungary

[@MrDominicharrison]

@@Error-kl9op part of that empire yes, but it was called Croatia Rather like India was in the British empire it was still called India

[@TheJMBon]

The Tesla Turbine wasn't adopted because no material known today can withstand the forces imparted by the insanely high wheel RPMs. Without intentional braking, the turbine will spin so fast that it'll rip itself apart.

[@rehabengineering476]

No. Alternating current was invented before Tesla was even born. He worked for Westinghouse who already had an alternating current transformer power system in place by then. Tesla "invented" a 2 phase current motor, but it was impractical at first and westinghouse engineers eventually modified it to work. But even the multiphase syncronous motor was invented well before Tesla. The "war or the currents" was between Edison and Westinghouse. Tesla had almost no part in that - but Edison drew Tesla name into it merely in passing. Tesla was a electrical genius but he had almost no mathematical or physics knowledge of why the things worked - he even had more than few wildly crazy theories and ideas . Just a talented gadgety person with flaws like the rest of us.

[@simpliciosatingin]

contents nowadays shouldn't be taken seroiusly, pity to those who will take it seriously without researching thoroughly, i studied electrical engineering and most of the things in this video needs further research from textbooks and not from another stuff from the internet

[@Bill_the_Red_Lichtie]

12:02 What? Really? Why show pictures of the Tesla Valve when talking of the Tesla Turbine? I'm sure that the "Tesla Valve" has had more far reaching effects on the world than his fluid turbine.

[@UncleManuel]

Take a shot everytime Simon says "Tesla". I wouldn't make it even halfway through the video... 😂😂😁😁😜😜

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

The Tesla-contemporary who really doesn't get any mention is Steinmetz. Here is a guy who didn't learn his first word of English until he was onboard a boat, headed for the USA. Before Steinmetz showed-up in America, the so-called electrical engineers of the time didn't know how to design with electrical transformers. Prior to Steinmetz, electrical engineers mutually agreed that electrical transformers were oddities that "refused" to obey Ohm's Law. Steinmetz analyzed the conundrum, and quickly deduced (after reading a recently published scientific research paper; the topic of which was the hysteresis effects of iron) that electrical transformers always produce an output *phase shift* relative to the input AC sinusoid. From this deduction, Steinmetz invented an entirely new _vector based_ mathematics, which he called *phasors* or *phasor algebra.*

[@Sfunst38]

I love how the thumbnail looks just like Benedict Cumberbatch. He should definitely play Tesla in a movie!!!

[@GrrMeister]

*Nikola Tesla Born 1856 until died in 1943 aged 86 a true Genius !*

[@Sam-uz8hj]

I’m from Chelmsford the BirthPlace of the Radio we used to have loads of Marconi’s factories here

[@fredred8371]

13:50 "It's high torque"... Tesla turbines are known for defiantly NOT having high torque; in fact, quite the opposite.

[@RuminatingStoner]

AC/DC Thunderstruck

[@gh8447]

In the Tesla Turbine section, why were a number of images of the Tesla Valve used as illustration? They've nothing to do with each other.

[@TheKalaxis]

Bonus fact: The first thing William Roentgen took an X-ray off was his wife's hand

[@JustMe_OhWell]

Did you know you can see everything in your hand if you hold a flashlight that's turned on against your palm? I used to do that as a kid. Lol

[@johnmcm7690]

Shut up. We have Google too

[@AcornElectron]

*of

[@rodziegman]

No, that's what he admitted to doing first. We all know it was his 🌭! 😂

[@MichaelEilers]

@@rodziegmanyes you are right l, this man’s an idiot

[@nayfepacewell8923]

If you win the Ridge Wallet car or cash, be ready for MASSIVE tax office interventions.

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

I am always surprised at how the people of Tesla's time (including Tesla himself; all the way back to Tesla's days at the Polytechnic) had a useful/working AC Motor right in front of them, and didn't even realize it. Your standard design DC brush 'n' commutator Electric Motor works just fine IF, instead of DC, you supply the right amount of AC electricity. Such motors are used in industry all the time, and nearly always supplied with AC electricity. Such motors are referred to as _Universal Motors._ Standard (plug-into-the-wall-outlet) Hand Drills and Vacuum Cleaners usually contain Universal Motors. Originally, when it comes to "wall plug" Hand Drills, the idea was that, if you happened to be out in the boonies with your Tractor, and no wall plug outlet was available, you could "jury rig" the plug of your Hand Drill so as to connect it to the output of the Tractor's generator, and thereby run the Hand Drill off of DC.

[@morganlee2806]

He did NOT invent alternating current. That is a flat out myth that can be corrected with a simple Wikipedia search. This man has become almost as mythologized as Jesus.

[@jerelull9629]

It's a bit jarring when you refer to "the" alternating current. Most of us drop the "the". Fun fact: MOST automobiles and other portable/moving vehicles, even though their electrical components run on 12volts DC, generate their electricity via AC, the ubiquitous alternator, because it's more effective and efficient, despite about half of the AC wave being "wasted"/discarded in the process of rectification, which transforms AC to pulsing DC

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestation to our senses." -- Nikola Tesla

[@ryanwagner656]

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[@wayne7521]

Youre forgetting though , a kind !! Of wireless charging/transfer , has been around a lot longer. The simple mains transformer ... the kind that microwaves use ... and many other electronic devices ,through the years.. You could argue its nit that... but its still a wireless , Transfer of enregy.

[@tmarsden1878]

@Simon. At the start of the video it looks as if you are checking your hand to make sure there are 5!?

[@cesareborgia63]

Tesla's-Turbine's "High torque and low operating speeds" ????? - You absolutely incompetent!!

[@erniecolussy1705]

The ability to change voltage with transforms is what permits AC power to be transmitted over longer distances than DC power. It not something separate like implied in the video.

[@THE-X-Force]

That couldn't be done with DC though.

[@johnmarkbrailsford24]

It could, to a limited extent, have been done using rotary converters at each end of the power chain to alter the voltage/current balance. Such devices, incorporating a continuously-rotating armature, would however have required an attendant to tend to each machine (checking wear of carbon brushes, lubricating bearings etc.); not necessarily watching over it every second of every minute, but at least being within earshot to detect if a fault had developed by a change in tone. Such machines were used on interurban electric railways, usually situated in the annexe of a station building. The advantage of alternating current is that by its very nature it contains the inherent attribute of motion, in an electrical sense.

[@PaulJohn01]

Born and raised in the Austrian Empire and yet is called a Serbian-American in this video, many others just list him as an American inventor or Serbian inventor.

[@AldrickExGladius]

Why does Tesla look like Benedict Clapperback in the thumbnail?

[@bdrenfro]

It's confusing when describing Tesla turbine while showing diagrams and images of Tesla valves

[@stewartwaterman7837]

Tesla was well ahead of his time and as with all people ahead of their time, he had a hard time getting his ideas accepted. I feel that if many of his ideas were not suppressed by others like Edison, our world would have progressed much quicker.

[@venera13]

Tesla was a remarkable man, but not without faults. For one he strongly believed electrons did not exist and thought that general relativity was wrong. A good example that you can be smart, but still wrong about things you think you know more about than you actually do.

[@alberthartl8885]

Tesla did much of the science for AC but it was Westinghouse that made practical use of the technology. Tesla also holds the patent for 3 phase electricity but Dolivo Dobrovolsky made it work in the real world.

[@mrow7598]

Magnets and in part MRI's are rated in Ts or Teslas.

[@Kevan808]

Tesla was destined to be the real-life Tony Stark.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

Probably inspired him to an extent as he has many others, but he was a very strange man difficult to get on with who died in poverty, genius yes, billionaire philanthropist no, eddison destroyed him.

[@nela9994]

So did Morgan, who was upset that he wanted to give away what Morgan was making his millions on selling.

[@TobaJones77]

He also invented a radio controlled boat.

[@Alejandro_87]

Because he invented radio, but that asshat Marconi stole his patents and technically beat him to it like a lil spawn camping ho

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Source?

[@flamencoprof]

@@emaarredondo-librarian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_boat#/media/File:Tesla_boat1.jpg

[@RogueReplicant]

​@@emaarredondo-librarianEasy to look up. It's not a secret.

[@saladinbob]

I particularly liked those towers that zapped people into disintegrated dust.

[@ShukenFlash]

Somebody goofed and put pictures of the Tesla valve in the Tesla turbine section. Those are actually two unrelated inventions Tesla came up with

[@bigianh]

AC is also a lot safer than DC as with AC if you do get a shock you don't build up a charge whereas with DC charge just builds up until you cook :|

[@jmanj3917]

5:05 C'mon, Brain Boy. Who doesn't know? It identifies you as friend or foe, and then either zaps the F outta you, or doesn't zap the F outta you.

[@donwolff6463]

Was it not Westinghouse, his financial backer, who put the kibosh on the wireless free transmission of energy because there was no profitability to be had by such invention?

[@paladro]

free isn't in the vocabulary of a capitalist

[@Qingeaton]

No, it was Edison who did that. Westinghouse had Tesla working for him and did the lighting of the world's fair.

[@donwolff6463]

@@Qingeaton this was after Edison didn't pay up the 50k promised and they went their separate ways. After that Westinghouse became his financial sponsor/investor. If I recall right, this is the period when he was said to have created free wireless electricity using the ambient heat generated in the atmosphere.

[@slmille4]

It was incredibly inefficient, and it would’ve made wireless communication impossible

[@nela9994]

J.P. Morgan is the one who put the kibosh on the wireless transmission, allegedly. There is a famous quote about it.

[@Charge0Complete]

the ad of yours dont need to be 10 decibels louder then the rest of the video

[@thorstambaugh1520]

Imagine the discoveries the government seized when they cleaned out his apartment and lab upon his death

[@askthepaperclip]

It's always so weird to me that these guys have been friends since they were kids, and are still somehow squeamish about eating from the same side?

[@RidgeWalletYT]

Team Burnt Titanium 🙌

[@maxdatway4921]

Simon! Please! i beg you! stop posting so much content. I don't have the sparetime to watch it ALL! 😂

[@timmywashere1164]

What did he say about the last entry? I can't hear anything after 14:13

[@TobaJones77]

You used images of the tesla one way valve when discussing his tesla turbine. The two are unrelated.

[@Mad-Bassist]

There was an attempt at crossing Doctor Who and Blake's 7--Terry Nation ran both shows and thought it would be neat to have each show's heroes pass each other running in a hall and briefly waving. Unfortunately, both executives in charge of each show vetoed it.

[@knytrix]

So you're saying that without Tesla, there was zero chance that any human to ever be born after him would have ever figured out what he did or understand electricity? Why would you say that?

[@carlvege1775]

Wouldn't the magnifier be 3 phase electricity which is used in industrial applications on motors that require more voltage on the cold start or even giving you a 3rd 120 volt leg so when you're panel is evenly balanced your bill goes down (at least in America anyway). I wouldn't call 3 phase technology scraping the bottom of the bucket. It saves industry in the states untold millions.

[@jtcustomknives]

He also invented florescent lighting of sorts

[@nela9994]

He did, after Edison pulled out of the Worlds Fair contract (needing more money), they turned to Tesla, and he brought it in, with his newly invented type of lightbulb, under budged, and on time.

[@brs690]

If we ever figure out time travel i want to go back and pick up tesla and washington and bring them to modern times for a couple days.

[@Brooke95482]

The description of the Tesla Coil is not correct. The key idea, coil Q, was misunderstood by Tesla. The early versions of the coil meet the description you gave, yet were not deemed important by Tesla. See the Colorado Springs Notebook.

[@laser_simon922]

Tesla turbines have low torque, but high speeds…I think this got mixed up in the video…they are for that not suited as pumps

[@nela9994]

They actually work quite well as pumps (see also Niagara Falls) but the material science to keep the plates together was beyond his reach at the time.

[@white_isnt_a_race2338]

Einstein was once asked how it felt to be the smartest man in the world. Einstein replied “i dont know, ask Tesla”

[@kennyteeology3526]

I watched a film where Tesla had invented a machine that could duplicate objects, animals, and even people. Where are all the videos on that??!!!

[@nicoras8803]

Do I see a gold Rolex datejust, the other watch I am guessing is a submariner?

[@extraterrestrial7424]

Tesla was a genius in all fields except one: economics.

[@binalith4898]

ten bucks says that thumbnail presages benedict cumberbatch playing tesla.

[@superpaul79]

Every time Simon says "Tesla coil" I hear "testicle", but I am pretty effing high right now, so that may be on me.

[@jerelull9629]

Even though Tesla has been my hero for years, I learned a fe new facts about him. THX.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

Except Tesla championed 2 phase AC power transmission, which simply was a terrible idea and so innificent it never took off

[@JAlucard77]

HISTORYS MOST UNDERRATED GENIUS

[@venera13]

which makes it funnier that Tesla didn't believe electrons existed and thought general relativity was wrong. He was smart but not perfect.

[@WardenclyffeResearch]

Do I have to point out the errors in this video? It started out OK-ish but around 8 min. it fades into a blur of nonsense which have hardly anything to do with Tesla's real work. Oh, what is that? at 11 minutes we return (somewhat) to reality again. And then off into fantasies again... What a ride! I'm all confused now.

[@DaKiffster]

Absolute Legend!

[@shrekdaddyyo9632]

came here for spacex. left with lame snidley whiplash with lightbulbs.

[@bodgiesteve8849]

Tesla was born in modern day Croatia, which was under Hapsberg rule at that time. Also, in Australia we use 240 volts DC. 10 amps for lighting, 15 amps standard power and 20 amps heavy duty. Distances for transmition are are emormouse compared to the US We also use '3 phase 415 volt' for high torque industrial requirements. Residential properties can have 3hase installed, but this requires three active wires and a neutral, entering the property.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

Tesla really did lay the groundwork for the modern world we enjoy today

[@brandonprior2438]

There is someone who is making a magnifying transmitter and it works can travel over 1000 miles you should check sorry forgor his name 😅

[@namelesswarrior4760]

Hey Simon, can you pls do a video on an inventor named LU BAN?

[@pakde8002]

I'd like to see one on Ben Dover.

[@nela9994]

Lu Ban’s inventions (from Wikipedia) Cloud ladder-a mobile, counterweighted siege ladder. Grappling hooks and ram-implements for naval warfare. Wooden bird-a non-powered, flying, wooden bird which could stay in the air for three days. It has been suggested to be a prototype of a kite. The saw. Legend has it that when Lu Ban was grabbing hold of tree trunks in order to climb a steep slope while gathering firewood, his hand was cut by a leaf with spiny texture. He then realized that he could turn the leaf's texture into a more efficient tool for tree-cutting, namely the saw. Other inventions were also attributed to him, such as a lifting implement to assist with burial, a wooden horse carriage and coachman, a pedal-powered cycle, and other woodworking mentioned in various texts, which thereafter led Lu Ban to be acknowledged as a master craftsman