The forgotten genius who invented our future - BBC REEL

Electricity is all around us. We plug into it for almost everything we do. Yet we probably don't give much thought to the people who made it possible. While Thomas Edison may be known as the man who invented the light bulb, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla is the one who turned it on.
Before the booming tech revolution of Silicon Valley, Tesla was one of the original tech superstars, and we owe much of our modern world today to his incredible brain. Scientists and engineers all over the world are still bringing Tesla's inventions to life today.
So how did a man who should have been a billionaire, indelibly inked into history, end up dying penniless and forgotten?
Video by Kirsty B Carter and Joe Harrison
Commissioned by Dan John
#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews

[@veraivanovic4391]

not only was he beyond his time, but beyond ours as well, once again, he is rather misunderstood than forgotten

[@AngelSnowflakes]

Or silenced by those who could have lost their wealth by his innovations?

[@voroldrwarfff8858]

Lmao you're clueless. Tesla was ahead of the internet or of computers ? He couldn't even DREAM of something like a semi conductor. Tesla stans are sheeps

[@TanvirKabir0461]

He died penniless coz he was an honest man and everyone cheated or betrayed him.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Not exactly. He renounced to his patents because Westinghouse asked him to do so. I highly recommend you to watch this interesting video about Tesla, which includes images and quotes from his writings. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGSWYn2Oq7SIfbs

[@dimenbarang7595]

@@emaarredondo-librarian p

[@reinernst8203]

He's hardly forgotten lol. He's one of the all time most famous scientists, ever.

[@relwalretep]

I'd say the advent of the car company has widened awareness of him, however I suspect whereas Einstein has almost always been known for doing something groundbreaking with physics that broke Newton, until the last decade or so Tesla's name was barely known outside of nerd culture, and not that widely known within.

[@AngelSnowflakes]

@@relwalretep agreed

[@adelefarmer629]

Exactly. Very strange to call him 'forgotten'.

[@Dandontlie]

Being known doesn't mean we solemnly understands his work.Appreciating and understanding his invention are indeed forgotten.

[@reinernst8203]

@@relwalretep it probably depends on where / when you grew up, as well as your profession. I for one, and most of the people that have surrounded me throughout my life, have always known who Tesla is and what his contribution was to society. He actually had more coverage in my high school curriculum than Einstein. Much much more than Edison

[@theenlightenedone1283]

*Legends don't live to live ... they r remembered over and over*

[@joehaddad5986]

This shows you how human cruelty impedes it’s advancement. Humans are bewildering.

[@peteroehring695]

A photographic and encyclopedic mind, a unique combination that probably contributed to his eccentricities. It seems he was completely altruistic and cared not for money or fame, only caring about the science. His name is immortalized in several ways mostly in the Tesla car company. What a mind!

[@Ablet84]

Finally Tesla being talked about in the mainstream. Perhaps the future is bright after all!

[@DS9Sisko]

A note to all those who are “criticizing” the headline and assertion that Tesla is “forgotten”: it’s actually a fair and accurate statement in the sense that Tesla was world-known for his time. At the height of his public fame, he was well-known and as heavily praised as he was fiercely criticized. His war with Edison was a sensation. And YET for many, many decades Tesla was a complete unknown as his name and attribution for his contributions to science and technology faded. In fact, when I first read abut Tesla in the 80’s, stories were framed in the “Inventors You’ve Never Heard Of” and “Forgotten Geniuses” genre. Tesla was often portrayed as a something just short of a “mad scientist” and a kook. The Book of Lists was one of the first alt-history tomes to really take Tesla seriously. So while Tesla’s name has been reclaimed and it’s used far and wide today (as the video clearly points out at the end, for those who haven’t actually watched it), the MAN behind the name on the cars and the MRI machines is far, far from the heights of a time when many more millions of people knew the name Nicholas Tesla, not merely the products and brands who bear it.

[@rainbowgoosey]

wow excellently written dude. Could not agree more with everything you said. You summarized all of my feelings in a paragraph that made sense.

[@Dreyno]

I grew up in the 80s. I knew who Tesla was. He wasn’t as famous as Edison but he was in the next rank of inventors with Logie Baird, Alexander Fleming and Alexander Graham Bell. I learned about him in primary school.

[@jhake67]

TESLA WAS NEVER TAUGHT WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL.. IT WAS ALWAYS ' THOMAS ALVA EDISON THE GENIUS"..

[@rahmakacem2209]

He lived a hard life , I would have loved to learn about him in school rather than Edison

[@shinwuka9178]

I wouldn't agree he is forgotten but rather not given enough credit for immense contribution he gave to humanity

[@tnightwolf]

Yep! He can't ever be forgotten. There's an official Tesla measurement unity. The "issue" is that because he wasn't "easy to sell" as a personality in terms publicity, some of his best work is often relegated into a secondary role... Always lurking and often not credited for, just like his real life. If he was just a really greedy man, all he needed to become one of the richest men to have ever existed was to develop AC and Tesla Coils!... but fortunately for us all, he didn't stop, he wasn't greedy and he wanted more for everyone! One of the greatest ever!

[@AngelSnowflakes]

I wonder how many Teslas are there in the history that we don't know about

[@montyi8]

Lot of Tesla cars

[@Days-nf6lf]

Tesla gave his inventions that we are still trying to replicate or improve on to this day. The man invented wi-fi and electric cars in his day, only to be shut-down by the greed of companies with the same dirty stench as the Phoebus Cartel. Edison was also widely known to partake in the silencing of Tesla. Tesla was the symbol of pure talent and ingenuity could have propelled his time probably past our current tech, but is another example of how the 1% really decide everything for us. Whether it be silencing geniuses like Tesla, Galileo, or Copernicus, they are always there to get what they want at humanity’s expense.

[@AngelSnowflakes]

So true

[@voroldrwarfff8858]

blablabla you guys have no idea wtf you're talking about

[@paulhemming5376]

@@voroldrwarfff8858 no one does on Tesla ,Even Tesla did not know Nimwit

[@voroldrwarfff8858]

@@paulhemming5376 nonsense for antiscientific mystical idiots

[@hman0121]

@@voroldrwarfff8858 ikr this dumbass thinks Tesla invented WiFi when Tesla didn't even accept that Electromagnetic waves exist 😂😂😂. Tesla never made a car in his life either. 🤔 😑 If you want to attempt to prove me wrong bring primary sources

[@devamjani8041]

I liked your tribute to him, but he is not forgotten, he is one of the most famous scientists of all times. You would find thousands of videos on him, his work, etc. I would like you to make videos on Geniuses that are really forgotten, such as, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Chiang shien wu, etc. Almost each of them were women. They were just as genius as tesla or einstein, even more, but our society does not know how to remember women scientists and their contributions.

[@vijaybisht6969]

He was a treasure to humanity. Sad to learn he died penniless.

[@dennisdemark8151]

I never forgot him!

[@miskomarkovic3446]

Thank you

[@tnightwolf]

A pure genious that, despite his oddities, was a genuine Human/aka "man of the people"... Profit, while good, was always a secondary effect of trying to move Humanity forward!

[@tarasijemedjedovic5609]

GENIUS!👍🖖

[@inspiregrow2336]

Lots of love sir

[@IanZainea1990]

4:47 cool to see all the nails in the heel!

[@Erlrantandrage]

The music was distracting and made listening to the content challenging.

[@elizajayne2888]

I love model building.. especially when they actually fire up

[@garryferrington811]

Hardly forgotten!

[@TheGuggo]

Tesla and Edison could have joined forces and form a rock band together long before AC/DC.

[@libertiarecordings468]

Absolute hero

[@edwardfletcher7790]

High Voltage DC is only used to connect different areas or countries with non-synchronised electrical systems. It's the exception in long distance power transmission.

[@KeepCalmandLoveClassics]

An Absolute Genius 🙏🏻

[@rok0sbasili5k]

He didn't have an heir but what did he have was his legacy that breeds more and inspired more to be like Him that's more than heir for more future generations to come.

[@patrycjakonieczna]

Nikola Tesla... I have no doubts whom the film will be about before I watch it.

[@tiatemjentzudir4998]

Wow 💎

[@siddharth9]

In his letters to Swami Vivekananda, Tesla suggested the equivalence of energy and mass, years before Einstein.

[@Vlatka211]

Nikola Tesla is not, nor will he ever be, forgotten.

[@elizajayne2888]

The time machine parts are named after famous scientists of lightening. It’s like a delorian with after market parts named after famous scientists of lightening. Instead of a holly carb , it’s a Tesla carb ..

[@matnix2821]

Feels nice having his name :' )

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

Other forgotten people: Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and William Shakespeare.

[@117Industries]

Idk if Churchill was a genius in the conventional sense, but he was bright. And c’mon now, who forgets old Albie and Shakes?

[@rodolphendessabeka8721]

Tesla was never forgotten. That's a good title for 14 years old kids though.

[@stefannikola]

It's Tesla with an S sound in the middle. Even in his own native language, he pronounced his name with an S sound in the middle.

[@PhillipWenger]

Brits! 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@teaonrainyday888]

Well,as an English with an RP accent these sickening "Z" sounds instead of "S" bothers me as well.I would like to clarify it's not an English accent,not an accent you would find in English people from England.It's the bloody Scots or Irish with the American speech impediment accent.

[@georgepelton5645]

Was Niagara Falls really the world’s first hydroelectric power plant? Seems unlikely. Telluride, CO was powered by a nearby hydroelectric plant, designed by Nicola Tesla, and they claim to be the first AC hydro plant. Surely there were DC hydros before that. Also, I read a biography many years ago, and it said, IIRC, Tesla used 17 napkins, not 18, partly because 17 is a prime number.

[@srikanthan1000]

Pls also highlight other forgotten geniuses. Like the Indian scientist Bose who came up with telecom before Marconi and never patented his discoveries bcos he felt science had to be free for everyone. He never got credit for his inventions or his magnanimous nature. Wish at least KZbin channels would cover him more.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Mistakes in this video: -Tesla isn't the greatest man in electricity history, those are Faraday and Maxwell. -He had nothing to do with light bulbs, invented in 1879, while Tesla was still in his home country. -Several companies are shown named Tesla, but the physics unit for magnetic flux density that bears his name since 1960 isn't. -Tesla didn't invent alternating current, but Hippolyte Pixii, 1832. First applied by Guillaume Duchenne in 1855, and several other people and companies ever since. -Tesla didn't win the War of the Currents, but Westinghouse, his boss. Tesla was *one* of his employees. And other people later improved on his designs. -Tesla never spoke about "free wireless energy," but about saving money eliminating the wires. His idea can't work, because of physics. He was an inventor, not a physicist. Like, he didn't believe in the existence of electrons. -Maybe the British believe that in s.XIX America you needed to be a showman if you were an inventor, but the long list of other inventors that worked at the time creating the modern world we live in didn't do that. Showmanship isn't a proof of genius, not then, not now. -Death rays and other of his ideas cannot work because of physics. He never really described how that worked and the info left is unworkable. Proof? No army ever used it. -Presenting the signs of Tesla's mental instability as proof of genius perpetuates the myth of the "mad genius" and it's an injustice to all the regular people who did and do contribute to science and tech not being mentally troubled. That was the reason he fell into poverty. Not only he wasn't a businessman, he didn't invent many things that work, and at last he was only fantasizing. -Attributing to Tesla the invention of things that other people invented based on his dreams, is like attributing to Gene Roddenberry the authorship of anything invented that looks alike or was inspired by a Star Trek prop. -He didn't quite died penniless. He used to live in expensive hotels, move, and leave behind the unpaid bill. Around 1934 his former boss Westinghouse provided a pension of sorts for Tesla, and that was his income for his remainder years. -And, he never was a "forgotten genius." He got many awards in his lifetime. He has been always well regarded and duly remembered as one of the many that contributed to electric tech development, in history books that no one reads. The origin of the Tesla myth is an 80s TV show, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, aired in 1983, hosted by Jack Palance. A variety TV show, still deluding people, including the mighty BBC. Great job! Good work!

[@hman0121]

I know right! This video is riddled with provable errors, it's astounding to think such a huge network such as the "BBC" would create such an segment; it is filled with errors, exaggerations and myths. Tesla was a brilliant, eminent individual who had made his mark in the world, and should be presented as such. However, this video completely glosses over them and pretends they don't exist. "Wardenclyffe Tower" was based off faulty premises in regards to the Physics and was doomed to fail. Tesla's Physics in many cases was demonstrably awful, he didn't even believe that there were "Electromagnetic waves" or that Hertz's experiments actually were true and he sent Electromagnetic waves from to and fro. Tesla was brilliant engineer, however he contributed very little to the science of the time.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

@@hman0121 If you wish, please write to the BBC in regards to this video. I did already; I don't think that simple dislikes will tell them clearly how bad this video is. Thanks.

[@hman0121]

@@emaarredondo-librarian How did you write to the BBC in regards to the video? I would like to know which medium you sent it through: surely not paper and ink? Alas, it's an upwards hill - a few people voicing their contentions with such things can't do much against a conglomerate such as the BBC, but we can sure as hell try! Lol I'll consider writing to them as you have. :)

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

@@hman0121 Greetings. I answered your question days ago, but now I see the answer disappeared, possibly because it had a link in it. It's not difficult. Google "BBC complaints" and you'll find the BBC website section to do it. They read the complaints; I got an answer saying this video was made by a freelancer they trust so the work was well done; time to tell them they are wrong. ☝️

[@jadedrealist]

"The once forgotten genious who invented our future, and also loved a pigeon". He's kinda been on the public's radar and in pop culture for 20+ years now. So, forgotten no more. :-)

[@IanZainea1990]

That final sound bite: it says success is not wealth. Or notoriety, or happiness, or invention. But contribution to your fellow man. Tesla isn't beloved because he invented useless things for profit. He is beloved because he invented useful things. New things =/= progress, no matter how intriguing. It only matters of those things are useful, even if they may seem like a technological step backwards. And, in fact, I believe all technologies that do not add usefulness to our lives, cultures, societies... Demonstrable net positive utility & joy... Should be excised from our lives & societies.

[@elizajayne2888]

I took a model and made it real .. Seriously.. My space ship design fired up and generates its own power .. I have a scaled down model creating its own power ... The arc is intermittent but by speeding things up , it formed a solid arc .. My ship has unlimited power to run on ... The model didn’t work with one disk so I added another disk and I got energy building .. My time machine is called enterprise.. Kept the same design for my time machine.

[@nicholascureton933]

I do not forgot him.

[@heyyo162]

Tesla did not invent AC transmission, nor did he invent the transformer. Tesla did not invent the induction coil. Single phase AC power was being used more in Europe by many inventors in the early 1880s. As early as the late 1870's Germany had developed a crude 2 phase AC generator. Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky built the first full 3 phase AC generation and distribution system in the 1888-1891 period. Tesla to his credit was able to inspire Westinghouse to jump into AC, but very quickly Tesla's two-phase system was made obsolete by three phase systems which could more efficiently send power farther.

[@astaridjatmiko8187]

i was expecting "Hail Hydra" for the last sentence

[@AquaMarine1000]

General Electric's Charles Proteus Steinmetz is the man that surpassed then all. The father of electrical engineering.

[@TanvirKabir0461]

I love Nikola Tesla.🌺

[@therick9451]

Let's go this video was so good for me i am learning english and learn about these things is so good i can learn english and learn about triste things this make me so inteligent

[@gazanfersirinterlikci]

He was a real genius.

[@DennisJH]

A Tesla built 60 hertz hydro generator is still being used in British Columbia.

[@pcs2511]

And in school we were taught Edison was the man. On Modem Marvels on the History Channel about Telsa and all he did that we know of and what the government has released back.Who knows what they kept.

[@moover123]

0:52 "processor", shows a graphics card

[@justapasserby3862]

He is not forgotten... just some textbooks hide his awesome works. and it is not taught in some of the schools. some greedy wealthy man claims his works and claimed that it is their invention... But I believe God knows what he do and maybe he is already rewarded in God's place in heaven. Many people still Idolized his Knowledge including me and my partner and other Engineers, and other people who knows him. my partner told about sir Tesla to me...He shares a story about how amazing Is Sir Tesla was and his inventions... also his other fellow co-workers know his contributions. also sir tesla broke one of his inventions because he is a Good person even though he is less in wealth .. he still think for the sake of the future generation ... for the sake of humanity... I also amazed to him and others like him that written in some Science / physic books ... or in some publications... especially those practioner who help in the Medical Field Many Inventors are so amazing they have an amazing knowledge it is really came from God and his guidance... or maybe it can be some knowledge from their ancestors written in the ancient books. I respect many of them even some I don't even know their names cause I am not in their time and I only have limited resources. I like them and really amaze too them for making many awesome contribution in our today's society... I respect them. especially the chemist... their Job is very hard from studying to application it's hard and dangerous to be a chemist ... Thanks to them to their knowledge, sacrifices, because now we now what chemical is dangerous and what is not... I love them ... I am also amazed to them both Mrs. Currie and Sir Pierre Currie for giving us many knowledge about dangerous chemicals like mercury and Radiation, Lead but is also sad because of their dangerous work she got injured and it cause to her death... being scientist is No joke also the Jobs of the astronauts it is hard to become an astronauts. their also risking their lives just to Give us info about the outer space. and many others. Hope their exploration will become successful most of the time cause they also have a family waiting for them to come home... and also the war that's happening I can't help myself but to be angry at some Greedy War Freak leaders who Didn't think about the future of other innocent people... all they want is to war ... Do they even think what will be the consequences of their wrong doings? also the crime it is too sickening to always hear about something like that... It makes me sad to see crimes that bad people do to others.. hope the war and other crimes will decreases... I know many of us also wants a Peaceful and Happy life... Me I want something like that to experience... I want to be happy and not be depressed most of the time... tbh... I often experience that.. hope the war will really stop.. I also pray that... hope leaders will also think about that... think about their younger generations who will not experience how to be happy within sometimes their own family thats why me as a youth and I think Others as well ... Also thinking, dreaming , and praying to have A Happy Family someday that we are not experiencing when I was a child... luckily I have a Good younger siblings that can make some Good Humurous Jokes and also lucky to meet and have some awesome Good friends that also a Joker that can also makes me smile... I am thankful for that forever ^_^ even we don't have anything in life ... God let me meet some Good people that I can also see as a Family also. hope and pray for the war all over the other places that I didn't know to stop soldiers and police also has their own family waiting for them... I hate sad life endings... like seems what happens to me... but how I hope, wish and pray... that theres still another chance here where I can still be happy... even thou it is so hard, even thou it is so depressing most of the time... I want to make my own family happy... I want to build my own happy family... Hope me and my partner and other friends or family members will cope with depression.. also healing prayers for other depress people like me that I didn't know... God is Real... Angel's / Higher beings are real ^_^ I've luckily have seen there before believe it or not... they are real also hear their voice but most of the time I didn't see them... maybe they just want to remind me.. That hey! you are not alone... I can also here some advices sometimes from good spirits that I didn't see ... when I am in the merge of totally Giving up... because of too much depression, too much , negative hurtful things that I've heard, the bad things , bad people that I've also encountered... I am really in the merge of giving Up... It is too long to explain... I just also relate some of my hurtful emotions to some songs that I've heard... I also listening to some songs that have a very beautiful meaning yet sometimes it sounded to negative or painful but I can also feel their emotions there... I can really relate... Since I have anything to do even though I am also experiencing to much pain!!! Still I don't want to take revenge cause it's a bad thing... I just trust God like others say let God do the revenge... God can see all of Us... sometimes I just singing some of the songs that I can relate to... especially when I feel pissed of to unwanted life circumstances or other bad mouthed people... those who say abusive words, do bad things ..I have so much trauma because of them. I hate them for being like that. anyways I just want to stop my negative sharing... it's enough I just also want to move forward whatever it takes... I can't say I still love my life , but I love the people around me especially my Partner, my siblings , My family... it's hurt me for now I can't do anything for them beacause of my depressed self., because of my fears but I really want to change my mind... how to deal with my problem.. but like others I am emotional and weak... I also try to tell myself that "stop crying" but to weak and helpless with that thing... also I am thankful there are still some that helping me... praying for me to be ok mentally... it's really a Big help ^_^ and also I am very thankful to some beautiful musics that I am luckily listening and hearing sometimes YT recommended it to me ^_^ it really helps me to lighten up my mood or Emotion... makes me continue my Dream somehow? I search or choose also a beautiful song thanks God... and Thanks to Other Great Musician / Artist ... It is available! honestly, I don't want to be like this always get depressed and easily get pissed off due to my traumas to others... hope can also cope up with my traumas... what I am thinking so I can still hold on ... aside from lovedone's is thinking about how' Cute will be my future son or daughter will be like... btw ... I also experience having stillbirth other reason of my depression before its very painful also and depressing... I know how it feels like... I also don't want to talk about this because it will just only makes me cry... although I know my daughter is ok now with God ... our misfortunes are really depressing... She is so cute ^_^ sadly it just a short time to see her... but I believe she will be back in the right time ... we have a clue she will come back as a boy... thats give me a little hope... God knows how much I love her... and his father even though we dont have a perfect relationship... I often get pissed off to him he also... but damn! I still love him... and want him still to become a dad to our son and daughter... I want a relationship that will last like other couple has... even though there are so many ups and downs sometimes and seems really hard.... I still want to try... because I also know maybe I can't.. and I know I will not also be happy being with other... and I dont want to so I also try my best... even if I know its not always the best to be right maybe not all the time... but I want our relationship to be happy and okay... maybe not all the time we are happy.. there is also a time that I want to break up with him... because of my negative thoughts... We r not perfect, Me too I also do some stupid , annoying decisions sometimes... but we can't still both not ready being in part ways... I want to make him happy even thou we both experiencing depressions and traumas... together we will heal... I will still try... how I wish same for some of my friends and other people that I didn't know.. I also wishing for their heart healings .. they will also cope up with their depression... me too.... I want to experience a happy life having a kids with him I will believe to God and to other Good psychic that I've met online that said... my baby's soul will come back because she love us...^_^ he will reincarnated as a boy and reincarnated as my child again... just need to be okay first... so I will take care both of them... my partner and my baby hope I will be okay... Me with myself I can't do this alone... thats why we Really need God... God's Guidance, God's healing, God's mercy, God's Blessings and many more prayers. same as my partner and my family also his family... also theres no impossible with God... so always beleive... Angels are real they are really Nice , especially when you are Nice offcourse! they are handsome, beautiful, creatures. ^_^ I love them... just afraid of saying I love them also but yes... I love Good spirits.. also Good people and to those spirits who tells they love me ... sorry I can't say I love them back I am afraid... cause I have a trauma to some frightening creatures before... Hope they will understand that thing...

[@Buzzard1]

God rest his soul.

[@dargonmao1616]

0:35 "Nikola Tesla is the one, who turned it on."

[@adamrios3141]

He invented our future and he made it possible nickola Tesla I give thanks to him for creating the ac and god was showing off everyone indeed right there was a miracle of pure light bye 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@elizajayne2888]

The future is about to change as there is a meeting of all time travelers ... We feel the crown of lies must end ..

[@echodelta9]

I read there are only 4 photos of Tesla. I've never seen any but the younger ones maybe 3. There is a 4 shot of him at the end of the video. Anyway more than 4, oh the pigeons or doves. Coo wah coo coo coo! For decades AC was it for long lines DC came much later.

[@badrinathansathiyamurthy8390]

He is not forgotten he is suppressed

[@bugsygoo]

According to KZbin, we forget about Tesla every couple of months!

[@broderickelliott8527]

"He was one of the most USEFUL and successful men who ever lived." Can I get an AMEN!?

[@bigbadspikey]

The future was indeed his.

[@anubhavbharadwaj3845]

“All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or aluminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in neverending cycles, all things and phenomena.” [Man’s Greatest Achievement, John J. O’Neal., & Prodigal Genius, The Life of Nikola Tesla, 1944] Nikola Tesla quoting Vedantic concept from ancient Hindu scriptures.

[@AngelSnowflakes]

Human greed is limitless

[@trueherbsman]

Bucky eat your heart out! No disrespect ;) Tesla resonates eternal

[@JacobNorwood1]

Ya, you can’t forget Tesla because there always someone saying no one remembers Tesla. Or how screwed over he was.

[@Night_Wood]

Nikola Tesla is nowhere near forgotten. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is more of a forgotten genius. He was Isaac Newtons rival.

[@117Industries]

That’s more like it. I never heard of Leibniz until I started reading pop science books from the shelves of Waterstones. But now I know Einstein was one of a handful of really extraordinary minds of his epoch. Leibniz, Schrödinger, Plank, Tesla, etc. The world had some really clever guys in it!

[@debiprasadindrajit5870]

He surely has reached the status of a deity. One of the most outstanding scientists ever.

[@etherospike3936]

No Nobel prize for Tesla although people who stole his inventions get the acclaim , Marconi for example , is first that came in mind !

[@k.3004]

telluric currents

[@HenryLeslieGraham]

not quite

[@Zastrooper]

Ya right forgotten

[@junielesparas2063]

The problem of technology when is needed some fund and materials.

[@Mtl-zf9om]

I thank you on behalf of the ungrateful.

[@TriAngles3D]

Do you believe that Nikola Tesla like being called Tezla?

[@roygarza2770]

REALLY this man died poor but yet we are still using what Tesla created Our Future is because of him thank you TESLA

[@branimirnikolic4559]

So typical of the English to omit the basic fact of where a man was born and what nationality he was. Had he been an Englishman or of some other Western nationality, the English would have particularly emphasized this as part of their national pride. But since he was a Serb, then it's not cool and that's why they left it out.

[@dleivam]

I hate Edison so much... Tesla was the genius, not Edison

[@christopherlane5238]

The headline triggers me lol. Tesla is daily vernacular in my world. His name is uttered at least once a week around here. And not because im cursing at ANOTHER tesla driver who apparently didnt pay for the blinker option to be installed.

[@cristianchan5402]

imagine if Tesla coil was done... electric is free for us...

[@jeslojohn7226]

The moon can shadow the Sun for the moment but the fact is Sun always shine as Truth only Prevail.

[@objetivista686]

Forgotten genius thanks to the media.. 😒

[@pectenmaximus231]

Pandering to the internet cult of Tesla. Man was certainly a genius but “forgotten”? Hardly

[@MrManoranjanMallick]

Who invented light died in darkness.

[@tnightwolf]

There's a reason why AC/DC is not called DC/AC😁😆

[@Dandontlie]

My bro : "talks about how Tesla being made and inspired by Elon" Me : do you know what the references and inspiration of the name Tesla? My bro : yea, what a great inventor he is,Tesla are respresented for the spectacular car itself...Elon musk is a genius man. Me : 😞

[@smarajitpunaykanti6463]

Everybody dies poor , it's not only Tesla .

[@jameschristianwagner1167]

Lmao idk if this guy is exactly “forgotten by history” 😂 he does happen to have an SI unit named after him hahaha

[@mack-uv6gn]

I’m surprised Elon Musk hasn’t claimed he is the reincarnation of Nikola Tesla yet.😂

[@milesgreb3537]

Tesla is not forgotten and is in fact one of the most overated figures in recent history at this point

[@real_gaurav4140]

Overrated? Nice joke!!

[@stephenbrand5661]

Forgotten?? Very few people are as widely worshipped on the internet as Tesla!!

[@MoritaJunichiro]

Tesla ⚡️that's why. Soka Gakkai's radio and electromagnetic wave attacks, my apartment?🤮

[@Rahul-tk6ri]

He’s here Harry’s son

[@curiousbystander9193]

not

[@tnightwolf]

Btw Elon would give his right-arm to be 1/5th of what Nikola Tesla was... Just saying 😆

[@samuel.j.barker]

What?? Tesla is not in the least bit forgotten. Just a title to get clicks, so unnecessary

[@sirlordcomic]

Forgotten? One of the biggest companies in the world is named after him.

[@curiousbystander9193]

he went to his own funeral

[@flaguser4196]

i thought tesla invented electric cars and internet payments

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

This video feeds more on myth than history. Tesla was great, but not as unique and superior as presented here; like any inventor, he followed on the footsteps of other inventors and scientists before him. He did not invent alternating current, he improved it, and the War of the Currents was not between Edison and Tesla, but between Edison and Westinghouse; Tesla worked first for Edison and later for Westinghouse. The modest but well researched channel Kathy Loves Physics and History has a whole playlist called History of Science in Order with 50 videos about the history of electricity and akin subjects, putting everything and everyone in context, something the BBC didn't do. An example from Kathy's channel is this video about how Tesla is usually misrepresented as a "forgotten hero," "victim of Edison," or a sort of messiah crucified by the powers-that-be. Nothing of that is factual, the history of that time is documented, and that's what Kathy does and the BBC didn't do: look for the contemporary sources, instead of seeking opinions from fans. She even shows and quotes Teslas' writings: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGSWYn2Oq7SIfbs Or, if you don't believe in KZbin videos (but you are believing this one, right?), look for the historical sources, which you can see in the bottom of the Wikipedia article about Tesla, something that the BBC didn't do either. Or read any well researched Tesla biography or any history of electricity. Ask a librarian. Don't ask the BBC.

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

I was about to say the same thing, but shorter. 🤣

[@ellagardener538]

Spot on

[@georgepelton5645]

Well said. I also recommend “Kathy Loves Physics and History.” Journalists that cover everything can’t possibly know what they are talking about. To get the straight story, it is much better to go to people that specialize in the field being covered, and don’t try to sensationalize.