The Odd Life of Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla has gotten a resurgence in popularity, but his overall life is not widely known. What did he do that was so significant? What was his story? Is he overhyped?
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[@m.a.9571]

edison backstabbing tesla is the worst anime betrayal ever

[@James-pb7kr]

TOP 10 ANIME BETRAYALS Edit: I can't English apparently.

[@croatiaboy11]

My main is Kid Cobra go away Min Min YE

[@James-pb7kr]

It's a meme.

[@ucid5363]

home ak 47 500th like

[@levongevorgyan6789]

How true, because like your anime waifu: It isn't real.

[@cicerobully]

I've always believed that near the end of his life he was a genius trapped in the mind of a madman. He had the mental capacity to do anything he wanted, but he went crazy and died in obscurity.

[@asdf7248]

Famously the inventor of the tesla cannon

[@adamskii7812]

Rufus Brown famously known for not making the car named after his later name

[@NoobPTFO]

I'd like to thank him for the Tesla Power Armor

[@imperatorodaenathus9329]

famously known for being recognized by our Great God, Elon Musk.

[@noahborthwick3231]

Excuse me for dropping in

[@NoobPTFO]

DID SOMEONE SAY... PEANUT BUTTER?

[@trainman8335]

what do you call a stolen Tesla an Edison

[@Menno_3]

I didn't get it. But I liked it anyway.

[@yengub]

Tesla worked for Edison who took credit from Tesla's inventions and discoveries.( i think thats what it meant)

[@Jefferson5020]

People who wants likes will have the wierdest profile pictures

[@ikerants745]

train man Edison did not steal FROM Tesla Edison stole Tesla from Mankind(us)

[@potatophantasm1405]

What do you call a stolen Tesla My car.

[@NoobPTFO]

*Tesla's Bizarre Adventures*

[@araragid3cimo77]

Nikola Tesla best LALA

[@shikamaruthehokage]

Electrify za wardo!

[@rauguziteljguzi5211]

Electricity is unbreakable

[@Failfer]

Your Theory Is MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA

[@polakk5912]

He invented hamon

[@asdf7248]

The American kazoo cracked me up.

[@mariusbjrnebekk3999]

Rufus Brown O

[@taramas5582]

Kazoo kid is back!!!

[@johangonzalez783]

You mean Cody?

[@r.coburn3344]

Rufus the American Kazoo is my new band, wanna join us?

[@johnkilmartin5101]

I think it might have been important to mention he invented the binary system both for use with his remote control boat and to be able to turn on and off appliances within a coil.

[@30wheelbicycle57]

Binary was invented by Ada Lovelace in the late 1800s. He just applied it to his inventions

[@johnkilmartin5101]

@@30wheelbicycle57 He is the one with the patent. Whoever invented the jacquard loom had a system using it. But both of those are mechanical as opposed to electrical.

[@mueezadam8438]

_"Hey son if you don't die you can do the science thing."_

[@comedicpsychnerd]

*cough* *cough* th-thanks dad…

[@fdawer116]

His vision of electricity being wireless and being able to tap into the energy of the world could make a really cool story based around sci-fi of their time.

[@rmd251]

Tyler's getting a lot better! He's still not as good as Cody, but Cody has years of practice. The video itself looks great, too. Bringing in Tyler as a narrator has proven a great decision. Looking forward to future essays!

[@FabiusDerDM]

i am not quite sure about that. He speaks faster and his pronunciation is a little bit moist and harder to understand for someone with english as a second language. He gets bonus points for effort, tho. If he would start speaking more clearly, this would help.

[@TaePoDongIII]

agree saturas. His pronunciation for names and pronouns in the 51st state video was BAD. Take some speaking lessons first. Why did Cody stop narrating anyway?

[@drewstillexists]

klovervibe - I like Tyler, and I'm glad to see his videos, but I wouldn't mind some more Cody videos either.

[@victorgz2907]

Saturas Yeah, I have a bad time understanding him, have to turn on the subs to catch his words

[@indyh7716]

not as funny

[@itshitime]

well he invented a trap in clash of clans

[@captinobvious4705]

so you never played RA? what a shame DAMN YOU TO HELL EA

[@literallyonevideo7118]

Tiger King damn telsa coils were badass in red alert

[@Mistrinho7]

I always wondered why there wasn't a bigger storyline involving Tesla in Red Alert or C&C. Could've easily played on any side.

[@y0urs03pic]

C&C: RA was literately the FIRST Game to USE a Tesla Coil as a weapon or other Tesla Weapons !! CoC and the rest of the other games are copycats of using a Tesla Weapon !!

[@nolanwestrich2602]

Well, like 50% of games have some electric Tesla weapon. Looking at my moble games right now, Clash Royale, Mindustry, and Infinotode all have some sort of tesla tower.

[@darkguardian1314]

Fine line between Genius and Madness. Especially when he was known to have obsessive compulsive disorder. He may have even been autistic (Asperger's Syndrome) before it was known. Tesla may or may not have been as smart as history claimed but he did inspire innovation and ideas that others benefited from. He was the catalyst to great inventions if not the actual creator of those inventions.

[@sirboot1630]

at the Noble prize award ceremony : -Mr. Thomas Edison we're gonna use your invention to enlighten the world . and for you Mr. Tesla we're gonna use your invention in the backround of Frenkenshtein movies .

[@DoctorRock172]

Hmm I would say this is a bit to simplified.

[@grantbaker34]

Family guy reference people

[@Edax_Royeaux]

The NAME is Fran-ken-stein!

[@ImAwesome1277]

ltflak yea but he's pronouncing it in an Austrian/Germany accent. If though the spelling is horrendous

[@FabiusDerDM]

dont think so, given that it is in fact a german Name. You would spell it anyways: Frankenstein. He just tried to spell it in the monolingual american "i write what i hear" way.

[@MihkelKukk]

5:20 lol "actual footage"

[@ausie5902]

Is that why the band was called AC DC with a electric sign in between?

[@manfredvoncoolstuff6071]

Probably

[@BrownHairL]

Yeah. Angus and Malcolm saw "AC/DC" in a little sign in their mother's (or grandmother's... can't quite recall) electric sewing machine, and thought it'd be a cool name.

[@davidricardo4991]

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[@scr3aming3agle83]

Lucas Cottica Silveira was their mothers. Fuckin Love ACDC btw, best hard rock group ever

[@captainprotag0nist]

or quite *SHOCKING!?*

[@stripes5171]

Fire destroyed Tessa's laboratory destroying his work and inventions .I don't think this was a coincidence

[@jamesn5051]

Tessa? Yeah I smell good.

[@stripes5171]

fucking auto-correct

[@michaelloges8703]

Weagmonz 4444 Is it your boys cologne

[@maximkazhenkov11]

I don't think there was a conspiracy. Edison's factory was also destroyed by fire at one point. Fire was just a common hazard back then.

[@miketas7665]

Stripes you know you can edit your comment right?

[@JazzyAnasazi]

Tesla was right all the way up till the point to where he questioned the wrong man, Einstein. But no matter the case, Tesla should've rose to the top

[@harry1672]

Tesla always confuses me I can't pin down how influential he actually was

[@chriscanty7486]

What if the Norman conquest of England failed?

[@IamRayson]

Chris Canty The English language would be very different. Also, the 100 years war would have been less likely to happen.

[@steppebro]

English would have sounded more like Danish today

[@chriscanty7486]

An Uncomfortable Young Korean In Culture Shock Good thing I speak Danish then ;)

[@littlejimmyxD]

Thank god this wasn't just another Tesla circle jerk. Love your videos

[@leerman22]

I'm glad for that. Too many legends and hyperbole is stated as fact.

[@neeneko]

*sigh* I used to find tesla interesting, and we studied his work extensively in school. But this new found attachment crackpots have to him has really soured me on the topic. It has become an almost religious thing, with people legitimizing any number of fridge ideas by trying to assign it to tesla. Which is a pity since he did really great stuff, but his actual accomplishments have been utterly swamped by the mythology that has popped up around him. There is also the irony in people trying to focus on his legacy have shifted so many other even less well known inventors and scientists to him. It is almost like we can only acknowledge 1 person per domain per century or something. Even before his new found attention he was one of the most famous inventors of his period.

[@zwegster1422]

Serbia: He was a Serbian! Croatia: But he was born in Croatia! Serbia: But he was a Serbian! Croatia: But he was born in Croatia!

[@MONSTERKILL2013]

he was born in krajina, a part where serbs live in croatia, and a part where croats have been harassing serbs

[@zwegster1422]

M O N S T E R K I L L what does this have to do with my comment, the harassing started during the break of Yugoslavia

[@MONSTERKILL2013]

l just find it funny how croats claim he was one of them yet tried to do ethnic cleaning in krajina where he lived. Krajina never saw itself as croat

[@zwegster1422]

M O N S T E R K I L L well if krajina is Serbian territory, isn't Kosovo Albanian?

[@MONSTERKILL2013]

l agree it's albanian territory, for now, it used to be serbian, but it was taken from us from ottoman ethnic cleansing, as the albs were promised kosovo by ottomon, plus tito let albanians flood kosovo. Kosovo has been fought for throughout history by serbs, its soil is covered in our blood and it will return to us like it has many times before

[@autismalert2788]

The one youtuber not involved in drama lol

[@MihkelKukk]

True dat.

[@jpcriddle6446]

Mihkel Kukk no it isn't, here's a few that come to mind that are not involved, there are hundreds more. VanossGaming Do it with Dan Humour vault Deji (comedy shorts gamer) Yogscast H.I.S.H.E. Red Vs Blue Jake the garden snake

[@yes-tw8df]

JPC Rider comedy shorts gamer is sometimes in drama

[@ianmaluk1]

Give it time.

[@marcusfigved7593]

AutismAlert not mine!!

[@JuanJDuenas]

"Magic isn't real." Me: "Then how do you explain electronic devices?" "Well, you see, the way they work is -" Me: "Nah, man; das magic."

[@fo3nixz877]

essentially tesla was a mad scientist of his time

[@misaelramirez5236]

You need to do an alternate history video based on the book Ruled Britannia, however don't do it to soon I'm still reading it ;)

[@JavierCR25]

I was starting to miss your videos Cody! And cheers to Tyler he's doing a great job!

[@jonathanplooij3666]

tanks for the video

[@hhcoal8548]

You should do a video on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the subsequent political fallout (pun intended) that happened, and the effect on today's politics and mindsets.

[@kevinlane1219]

From what I heard, from historical documentaries and Wikipedia mind you, Thomas offered Nikola $50,000 (which would be $1,200,000 today) if he could improve the system. Nikola succeeded, but Thomas said he didn't understand American humor, so he angrily left. At least, I think that's how it happened. Also, it wasn't an earthquake machine, it was an oscillator for steam powered generators. And it wasn't a death ray, it was more of a heat beam, I think.

[@zahariburgess3660]

Yeah it was a microwave gun or something along those lines

[@kevinlane1219]

@@zahariburgess3660 Thank you for your testimony.

[@lukatoprek936]

All in all pretty good,just if you mentioned more of his "crazy" milytaristic inventions that never came to be example:A machine that would have been able to diseble enemie aircraft using electrisity or something like that not sure heard about it a while ago...

[@SlyPearTree]

Thank you. I recommend "Tesla: Inventor of the electrical age" by W. Bernard Carlson, an honest biography for anyone wanting more details without any contamination by the free energy peoples.

[@landontaylor4818]

ACDC

[@das3610]

landon taylor damn son

[@CEGsViewingChannel]

Big Balls

[@thomasvodrey3743]

(Insert *ELECTRIC* pun here) To be fair, that joke was rather *SHOCKING* I'm sorry

[@pineconepinecone8630]

Thomas Vodrey wow you shocked me

[@DinaricWolf]

The truth hertz.

[@laurierim]

Thomas Vodrey *Watt* are you doing with your life?

[@ossi_2429]

Ohm my gosh.

[@striped_sponge7187]

Thomas Vodrey Guess *watt*?

[@MegaPhester]

Loving Tyler's vids

[@jonathanhelgesen8800]

Can you do a video on Josip Broz Tito? Really like your videos btw

[@lukadinicc2229]

Jonathan Helgesen OH YESSSS That would be awesome

[@nbksrbija1039]

Broz before -hoz- other videoz

[@prussiangermansoldier2987]

6:38 Hey that's just like in rdr2

[@TomsonPRD]

Glad that you mentioned Marconi! He really changed the world as we know it with his works!

[@unhumanized]

I'm glad I knew alot of this history. Even happier to have filled in some gaps I didn't know about

[@BinglesP]

Who else thought the electric spark at 0:52 was a erratically dancing headless stickman

[@dss345]

I like the old style better

[@MihkelKukk]

+1

[@prestondial1992]

+1

[@prestondial1992]

This is still good though

[@darken2417]

+5000

[@Dovahbruhh]

+1

[@hieuphungminh6690]

Greatest virgin in the history of mankind

[@FabiusDerDM]

ah, i see. Referring to yourself. You know this is a Video about Tesla? Longest dong back then?

[@spencerbush1474]

Cereal DuDe That belongs to Newton. He actually was a virgin for life.

[@jakevermeer1109]

I agree he beats Jesus by alot

[@alikos88]

Tesla...was Asexual before it was a "thing"

[@matthewkendall8592]

The Virgin Mary wasn't a virgin.

[@braedengriffiths4249]

Just to point out something around the seven minute mark. Marconi transmitted data from Newfoundland NOT Nova Scotia. Just a common misconception.

[@TheCTCGamer]

If Nikola Tesla Would have succeeded in creating wireless energy we all would have been dead

[@zandertirabasso8601]

This comment section are people debating whether he is a Serb or a Croat. It's like a new Bosnian Genocide

[@TheAkinator87]

Zander Tirabasso Mladic did nothing wrong.

[@void_wyrm]

The "Bosnian genocide" has nothing to do with this and also he was a Serb

[@martinpat94]

Is it just me or does that weapon he theorized kind of sounds like a Rail gun?

[@hexx2211]

That beautiful kazoo rendition of the Star Spangled Banner damn near brought tears to my eyes.

[@andythedishwasher1117]

I love how you used cyberpunkish music to depict how the 19th century saw electricity. It made me smile.

[@aarnejaroma]

Scotty Sire's tesla will probably have a more *SCHOKING* life than anything

[@victorgz2907]

Aarne Jaroma *SCHOKING*

[@aarnejaroma]

Víctor G. Just realised it now lol *SCHOKING*

[@benjaminwinnie4626]

Im not very knowledgeable on this, but it sounds like he was wrong about everything except ac.

[@shreyvaghela3963]

Benjamin Winnie kind of

[@ZeDitto3]

Okay Cody, getting your brother Tyler to work on videos on the channel was a fantastic idea.

[@aaronhanson7241]

How did you get a hold of that footage at 5:16?

[@WikiK1d]

I think it's sad. He was obviously a brilliant mind, he would have done very great things if it weren't for the fire. The fire might have affected him badly. It's after it happened that his life went down hill. He became crazier and his ideas became outlandish. He might even develop a mental problem as he aged. I'm just saying, it's obvious that he was traumatised.

[@onetwothreefour3957]

who the hell is tyler, i want cody

[@onetwothreefour3957]

Issc wait, the same guy that used to be in his videos ages ago?

[@BubbaBlueTube]

Nice video 😎

[@robertdelprete7544]

When will you upload on the alternate history channel

[@thureintun1687]

This is the true story Nikola Tesla, without dramas. Nowadays, Kids are worshipping Tesla for building that childish sci-fi Tesla coil and they like to imitate his bizarre personality. If you're really into science he was just a ordinary eccentric man, nothing more. Not the greatest mind in history or man with the highest iq (there's no official iq test for him) as most kids say. I respect him for what he did with his 84 years of his life on Earth, but I also dammed shame on him for so many stupid guessworks he made, that most of which were scams. He was just randomly handpicking the ideas that pop-up to in his head, and he also mocked the most important modern scientist, Albert Einstein and his works which are observable truth. First time I read about Nikola Tesla, i was about to like in his works and his oddness. But Tesla's fans...😥, those ignorant Tesla's fans are so annoying!

[@andro_king]

TESLA IS SERBIAN!!! WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK HE IS CROATIAN?!

[@FlowerTrollSan]

PositiveChristianity He was born in the Austrian Empire and emigrated to the USA, lol. But he was an ethnic Serb.

[@loggingfire1]

He didn't say that, he said he was born in the AREA now IN Croatia, but it wasn't IN Croatia back then, boarders change

[@enderman_666]

@NovaZora What exactly did Croatia give him? He would've had much the same upbringing, or even better perhaps, had he been born in Vojvodina or in Hungary proper.

[@exmythos7318]

5:20 that's the best ACTUAL FOOTAGE I've *directly* seen...

[@sentionaut6270]

I like these animations.

[@danilodjokic5303]

Tesla was a Serb

[@loggingfire1]

That's not what he said, Tesla was born in the area now in Croatia, but wasn't Croatia back then

[@milicag1576]

Nikola Tesla was a Serb, his father was an ORTHODOX priest, and he even mentioned that he was a Serb a few times. He might've been born in Croatia, but his ethnicity is clearly Serbian.

[@loggingfire1]

Once again, he didn't say that, he said he was born in the AREA now in Croatia, but it wasn't in Croatia back then

[@asapmob1128]

Keep coming back to this video, don’t know why

[@smilly456]

Cody where is part 3 you said next week that was a month ago

[@konac7191]

"he believed that marconi was using his patents, although he was using them for very different purposes." completely unbiased.

[@shreyvaghela3963]

Good thing he is not a fanboy

[@solarsceptile5908]

HECK YEAH! NIKOLA TESLA! I'm hype because i did a presentation on him back in 5th grade lol

[@liamgarrison3369]

Where's that part 3 of the CSA series? You originally said it was going to be the first week of July

[@The_WhitePencil]

Imagining Tesla gambling is way more funny to me than it should be.

[@greengreen110]

GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK OR I'LL ELECTRIC CHAIR YOUR ASS!

[@blew1t]

damn, he had good skin though.

[@taramas5582]

Rave Beast WTF?!

[@catpowers9932]

yaay weird guy!

[@Michael_Brock]

Tyler is beggining to grow on me. But cody still is knowlege hub to me! 😜 good topic.

[@nbksrbija1039]

I just can't comprehend that there are no flame wars in this comment section

[@skepticalorganism7820]

*TESLA* * A GREAT LIFE*

[@Pr00ch]

>father was priest >said he was intelligent thanks to mothers genes S A V A G E

[@FlowerTrollSan]

Pr00ch But his mother was the daughter of a Serbian Orthodox priest too, so...

[@weldin]

WE WANT PART 3!

[@johnclayden1670]

Actual footage!

[@akramgimmini8165]

I Like His ,,Earthqueake Maschine"

[@danielbat9887]

🎶🎵I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to say that Tesla was Serbian🎶🎵

[@tomothan]

Serbian*

[@toxicmain9738]

Daniel Băț yeah piece

[@rockfan2996]

Daniel Băț *serb ai priceput, dragă ;)

[@CmdrShepard1001]

It says a lot about Serbia when being the birthplace of someone who became great after moving out is the biggest source of pride among Serbians.

[@BoxOfGod]

Technicaly he had citizenship in Austrian Empire.

[@ThePicklemonman]

How did you obtain actual footage?

[@namingisdifficult408]

Yeah

[@dhiaeddinemokaddem3818]

according to tesla and his fans: tesla invented everything and everyone is just a thief 😂😂😂

[@vitabricksnailslime8273]

At long last, finally a simple and factual video on the man.The mythology surrounding Tesla seems to be growing daily. Most discussions lead me to believe that there is a new religion growing with him as the Messiah. It seems to go something like this. Once upon a time a man was born with an intellect so great that no other living person has ever come close to him. He performed many miracles and was totally altruistic. A cabal of devils by the names of Edison, Westinghouse, and Morgan, in league with an evil government, sought to exploit his inventions, suppressing those which would have liberated us, and ensuring that he died virtually unrecognised and in poverty. Only a filthy version of his perfect inventions, which allowed the evil capitalists the greatest wealth and power, was ever allowed to be made. If only we had worshipped him in his lifetime, we would now be living on light itself (I shit you not). Amongst his miracles we may list The miracle of radio, far in advance and more powerful than anything Marconi applied. The miracle of wireless transmission, which had to be suppressed as this would not allow the evil capitalists to charge. The miracle of the death ray, which governments were too stupid to recognise. And finally, The miracle of free energy, which would allow every human being access to unlimited power in spite of the laws of thermodynamics. I think I want to spew.

[@taktiktiles9770]

Awesome!

[@TJD0503]

7:10 Even if his ideas aren't physically possible it still makes for some damn cool looking sci-fi imagery

[@cup_check_official]

You forgot to mention that he fell in love with the pigeon and that he (tried?) to shock the children as well thinking that it would make them good at maths :D

[@paperboss4036]

stupid rumors very stupid

[@scottkrafft6830]

He also never dated women (of course never had sex) because he thought it would distract him from his work.

[@s.u.p.r.e.m.e.society9607]

Scott Krafft Why am I now imagining Peter Griffin getting ready to have sex with a bagel?

[@HenryAB]

Source: My ass.

[@soysauce8437]

Tell Me This theres actually studies rhat show an electric shock can make you better at math

[@spartangerm2122]

Hi how are ya?

[@Edax_Royeaux]

I did not know that the giant Telsa Tower couldn't have actually work. I was wondering why such a device was never an alternate history wonder of the world that could have been built in Civilization.

[@jacobgottus6391]

It could have worked

[@mail2257]

ONE OF GREATEST SERBS IN HISTORY

[@lightning4242]

kronos 222 his mom was Croatian and his dad was a Serb

[@mail2257]

Mate Orsulic there is no documant thet his mother was croat coz in thet time was old "vojna krajna" where serbs was 65%+ and in his whitig he called him self serb

[@tdlf156]

kronos 222 No one gives a shit. How about we appreciate his achievements instead of his nationality

[@TheAkinator87]

Mate Orsulic That's wrong.

[@andrejvidovic1]

"How dare someone say Einstein is Jewish, he was born in Germany!!"-that's what all you idiots who contradict the fact that he is a Serb sound like

[@michaeldaugustine9249]

Wireless energy is actually possible, just on small local scales such as a room and at small amperages, not on the global scale that Tesla imagined. Using plugin radio wave transmitters and radio wave receivers at high enough amps, or the more expensive, but less interfering inductive walling, you can create a room which could send electricity through the air or induce currents in devices built to receive the specific frequency or induced current.. It's just not possible on a global scale

[@deathsquadrec]

there are also two OTHER types of electrical currents, but AC and DC are the main two we use.

[@dixonmusgrove3876]

Dang it I am gay

[@aidankii8667]

Seb Please sir this is a Christian server son no swearing

[@ImAwesome1277]

I feel your pain bro

[@edwardcollier7218]

Let me ring up someone to help you. *rings up promised person to help* "Mr. Vice President Pence, can you send some of your best electroshock therapists here?"

[@officerchad1213]

Dang I'm an attack helicopter

[@theq4602]

I'm a centralist who hates all ideologies you all shall burn.

[@radavar]

He was a good person. RIP the greatest man ever lived.

[@generic7916]

I've recently found out about a guy named Micheal Faraday and I'm quite sure that he was one of the people who created transformers and such, please point out who would actually be if I'm wrong.

[@martismartiis813]

7:49 holy shit that would be an awesome invention

[@lukacortan4822]

Proud to be a serb

[@hizoball252]

+Atom Alexandra (Nightblade) You cannot stop a 1000 year old war machine, it only slows down and speeds up, the only way to stop it is to destroy it (Nuking it to oblivion)

[@nikmil4568]

Proud to be a degenerate American

[@lenini056]

Fuck you because I'm American who loves Serbia. We are not all degenerative!

[@nikmil4568]

I meant the general populace. You are an outlier to the rule, not the other way way arounds. Anyway cheers

[@claymeistereu]

Proud to be a Pole. Polish?

[@saladbruh2625]

Why wasn't it mentioned that he was a Serbian. They only sad that he was born in Croatian region of Austrian empire. If he was an Austrian or Croatian they would mentioned it.

[@cillcamst2]

Salad Ass he was Austro Hungarian because there was no Croatia and he was not born in Serbia.

[@saladbruh2625]

cillcamst2 you can't say someone is Austro-Hungarian those are two nationalities. And he was a Serb because his family was Serbian.

[@acrefray]

If someone is born in Mexico with American parents, they are Mexican, not American. Tesla was not Serbian when he was born in Austro-Hungary. If you want to apply today's geography to this (which is in itself flawed), he would have been Croatian.

[@saladbruh2625]

look on Wikipedia it says that he was Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[2][3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5]

[@SilentSniper-zn7eu]

Salad Ass Tesla je Srbija

[@dweekly2002]

What songs where used in this video

[@andrewseelig2062]

make a video explaining the 7 seas like the origin of the term

[@lukamilic8503]

Tesla was a serb

[@scorpions7153]

He was a Serb

[@hizoball252]

As Croat, i frankly don't give a shit if he was Serb or not, he was a brilliant man who did things that shaped the modern world as we know it. And he was born in my country of Croatia, at the very least i can pride myself in that... Također, sam da kažem, tijekom Jugoslavije, Nikola Tesla je praktički bio Jugoslavenski znanstvenik. (Koja su to bila vremena gdje se ljudi nisu klali zbog Tesline nacionalnosti..) u jebote nisam ni spomenuo kaj su se Rumunji upleli, vele oni da je bio Rumunjin!

[@globalmapping5034]

Nitko nije ni rekao da je Hrvat, točno sam znao da će hrpa Srba skočiti na komentare...

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tesla was an austrian then, as at the time serbia did not exist. just as i am a belgian, because flanders isn't a seperate nation (yet, hoping that changes very soon)

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Meme Roots games srbija nikad nije bila dio austrijskog carstva, da si ikad taka knjigu zna bi to

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+GlobalMapping "Ja sam ponosan svoje Hrvatske domovine, i Srpskog porijekla" ~ Nikola Tesla To dolazi iz usta samog covjeka, ajmo narode razlaz, imaju se radit bolje stvari nego debatiranje nacionalnost i mjesto rođenja covjeka koji mrtav vec preko 70 godina. Bolje debatirat buducnost nasih postenih drzava kaj ne?