Top 10 Famous Inventors

For this list, we've looked at those inventors that have had the most important, most popular, most definitive effect upon the modern world. We're interested in those responsible for the inventions without which modern life would be very different!

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[maclippy]

No WatchMojo I do not agree with your list. Nikola Tesla should've been number one and we all know it.

[dksoulstice]

Nikola Tesla: So under-appreciated and forgotten by the masses.

[edwartvonfectonia]

Tomas Edison not deserve.
Nikola Tesla>Tomas Edison+50000$

[Thecoolguy]

Actually proud the people in the comments know what the deal is #TeamTesla

[OnePieceTheorist]

Edison did his work for money, Tesla did his work for humanity.

[richardmiller]

Leonardo and Tesla are the greatest men of all time

[KryptoChronicutelite]

Edison #1 for inventing things like the lightbulb? too bad he didn't invent it...

[ZZimaJr]

tesla won the court case vs marconi proving he was indeed the one who invented the radio

[jonathanbarker]

The Wright Brothers, Archimedes,Leonardo da Vinci .And Nikola Tesla did more to change to the world .Than any other Inventors on this list .They did so much, that we are still feeling it today .

[dionysos]

HOW DA FUCK ISN"T LEONARDO DA VINCI NOT NUMBER 1!!!!

[DKSimon]

Why does people still believe that Edison invented the light bulb?
The real inventor of the light bulb was Humphry Davy

[Jay-bmfl]

THOMAS EDISON FREAKING TOOK THE CREDIT FOR NIKOLA'S WORK. DAMN IT, WHY IS HE NUMBER 1?!

[JokeRatedR]

This is your worst video WatchMojo.com

[OsborneLife]

Edison stole many of his "ideas" from Tesla, and many others. How could you put him at #1?

[snnnaaaaaakeeeee]

I think that Nikola Tesla deserves the Number One Spot much more than Thomas Edison!

[karlosOG]

You made a video about Tesla the other day saying that he was stolen by Edison and now you put him on the 1st place

WTF?

[Sistik]

I used too hate social studies/history in school. But being older now i just find all of it so fascinating and wanting too learn more.

[Stormwatch]

This video just shows how sad and miserable western white people are. On the end of the video you ridiculed the biggest Genious the earth has ever had - Nikola Tesla, but in reality he is the person you could thank many of Thomas Edison "inventions", and Thomas Edison not only had stolen much of Tesla's lifework, but he also did all what he could to stop some of best Tesla's invention and patents being accepted widely because he was just a limited underachieving copycat who could not even clean Tesla shoes...yet you have given Tesla the shortest time of all Scientists. Also, a little bit of research would hurt your ego I know, but your 10th scientist on this list - Marconi, has also stolen the Tesla's work - radio vawes :-). Also, you never mentioned Mihajlo Pupin - and it's ridiculous because all the work of Graham Bell was completely useless without the help of another "lower race" Slavic man who made telephone actually a usable thing for both short and long calls, not to mention that Mihajlo Pupin was one of NASA's key founders, so this what you have done with Pupin and Tesla is at least scandalous, with really bad taste.

[blonded]

Bell didn't invent the telephone. Meucci invented it, but he hadn't got enough money for the patent. Bell took Meucci's patent and said it was his invention.

[leothomas]

you know at first i was about to comment "ah why isn't tesla first! eddison stole his ideas and was really only an evil business man..." but then i looked at the comments, so at least we all know who the real number one should be